Trees and forests through the year, sentence 15
Tree roots hold the soil together and stop it from washing away.
Who acts: Tree roots · What happens: hold, stop, wash away · To what, where: soil
This is a sentence of the lesson «Trees and forests through the year» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tree roots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 roots | compound |
| 2 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 hold | nsubj |
| 3 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 soil | det |
| 5 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hold | obj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 hold | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 stop | cc |
| 8 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hold | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 stop | obj |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 washing | mark |
| 11 | washing | wash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 stop | advcl |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 washing | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hold | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | Tree roots | the soil | together property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Theme | |||
| 2 | stop | present | Tree roots not said here | soil | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | wash away | gerund | Tree roots not said here | away property | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:world:076-trees-and-forests-through-the-year.lesson:15.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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