--- title: A wetland is land that is soaked with water for much of the year: a… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics description: A wetland is land that is soaked with water for much of the year: a marsh is full of reeds and grasses, a swamp has trees standing in water, a bog is a cold wet sponge of moss, and a mangrove is a forest growing in salty mud by the sea. Who acts: wetland, marsh, swamp, trees. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wetland, marsh, swamp, trees), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:0 # text = A wetland is land that is soaked with water for much of the year: a marsh is full of reeds and grasses, a swamp has trees standing in water, a bog is a cold wet sponge of moss, and a mangrove is a forest growing in salty mud by the sea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 wetland wetland NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 7 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux:pass _ _ 7 soaked soak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl:relcl _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 marsh marsh NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ _ 19 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 reeds reed NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 grasses grass NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 conj _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 swamp swamp NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 27 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 parataxis _ _ 28 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obj _ _ 29 standing stand VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 28 acl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 bog bog NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 35 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 37 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 sponge sponge NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 42 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 48 cc _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 mangrove mangrove NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 nsubj _ _ 46 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 48 cop _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ _ 49 growing grow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 acl _ _ 50 in in ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 53 by by ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 54 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 55 det _ _ 55 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 56 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | a wetland | land | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **soak** | present · passive | | land | | | | with water; for much of the year | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme | | 3 | **is** | present | a marsh | | | | | of reeds and grasses; full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **have** | present | a swamp | trees | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | | 5 | **stand** | gerund | trees *not said here* | | | water | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | | 6 | **is a** | present | a bog | a cold wet sponge and a forest | | | | of moss | tree rules | | 7 | **is a** | present | a mangrove | a forest | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **grow** | gerund | a forest *not said here* | | | salty mud | | by the sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mud=Location | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:0`. **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): R6-punct-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Rivers, lakes and ponds, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/17/) - next →: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/)