--- title: Wetlands soak up flood water like giant sponges and let it out slowl… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics description: Wetlands soak up flood water like giant sponges and let it out slowly, and reed roots trap mud and clean the water. Who acts: Wetlands, reed roots. A sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatic --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/17/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/) / 17 # Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 17 Wetlands soak up flood water like giant sponges and let it out slowly, and reed roots trap mud and clean the water. **Who acts:** Wetlands, reed roots · **What happens:** soak up, let out, trap, clean · **To what, where:** flood water, water, mud This is a sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» of the biology 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 (Wetlands, reed roots), 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:17 # text = Wetlands soak up flood water like giant sponges and let it out slowly, and reed roots trap mud and clean the water. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Wetlands wetland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 soak soak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 like like ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 sponges sponge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 out out ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ _ 13 slowly slowly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 reed reed NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 18 trap trap VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 19 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soak up** | present | Wetlands | flood water | | | | like giant sponges | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | | 2 | **let out** | infinitive | Wetlands *not said here* | water | | | | slowly *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 3 | **trap** | present | reed roots | mud | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Patient | | 4 | **clean** | present | reed roots *not said here* | the water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | 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:17`. **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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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