--- title: Sphagnum, or bog moss, has big empty cells that fill with water, so… — Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs · tree and pragmatics description: Sphagnum, or bog moss, has big empty cells that fill with water, so it can hold up to about 20 times its own dry weight, and it makes the bog wet and acidic. Who acts: Sphagnum, big empty cells, water. 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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 (Sphagnum, big empty cells, water), 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:7 # text = Sphagnum, or bog moss, has big empty cells that fill with water, so it can hold up to about 20 times its own dry weight, and it makes the bog wet and acidic. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Sphagnum Sphagnum NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 bog bog NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 moss moss NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=1:appos 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 cells cell NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 11 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 12 nsubj _ _ 12 fill fill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ _ 13 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 17 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 18 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 20 up up ADP RP _ 19 compound:prt _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 about about ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 24 nummod _ _ 24 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 26 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 27 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=28:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 28 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:obj 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 bog bog NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 xcomp _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 acidic acidic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Sphagnum or bog moss | big empty cells | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cell=Patient | | 2 | **fill** | present | big empty cells | | | | | with water | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument | | 3 | **hold up** | can | water | water's own dry weight | | | time | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **make** | present | water | the bog | | | | wet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material bog=Product | 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:7`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×4, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/6/) - next →: [Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/11-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs/)