--- title: Wetlands are not wasteland: they soak up floods, clean water, and st… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics description: Wetlands are not wasteland: they soak up floods, clean water, and store huge amounts of carbon, so many countries now protect them and even build new ones. Who acts: Wetlands, fish, many countries. 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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 (Wetlands, fish, many countries), 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:4 # text = Wetlands are not wasteland: they soak up floods, clean water, and store huge amounts of carbon, so many countries now protect them and even build new ones. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Wetlands wetland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 wasteland wasteland NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 soak soak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 clean clean ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 conj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 store store NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 conj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 carbon carbon NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 now now ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 protect protect VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 26 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 even even ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=25:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 30 new new ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 obj _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **is a** | present | Wetlands | wasteland | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **soak up** | present | fish | floods and clean water and store huge amounts of carbon | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent flood=Source | | 3 | **protect** | present | many countries | fish | | | now | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | | 4 | **build** | present | many countries *not said here* | new ones | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset one=Product | | 5 | **amount** | | | carbon | | | | | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=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:4`. **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, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/3/) - next →: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/6/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/)