--- title: Under it all lies chornozem, black earth, among the richest soils in… — Ukraine's plants: sunflowers, viburnum, poppies,… · tree and pragmatics description: Under it all lies chornozem, black earth, among the richest soils in the world, built over thousands of years by steppe grass roots rotting into the ground. Who acts: all, steppe grass roots. 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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 (all, steppe grass roots), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses.lesson:5 # text = Under it all lies chornozem, black earth, among the richest soils in the world, built over thousands of years by steppe grass roots rotting into the ground. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses.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 Under under ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 obl _ _ 3 all all PRON DT PronType=Tot 4 nsubj _ _ 4 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 chornozem chornozem NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 among among ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 richest rich ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ _ 13 soils soil NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 built build VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 acl _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 steppe steppe NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 roots root NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 27 rotting rot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 26 acl _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | all | chornozem and black earth and the richest soils in the world | | centre | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location chornozem=Theme | | 2 | **build** | participle | | the richest soils in the world *not said here* | | thousands of years | | by steppe grass roots | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **rot** | gerund | steppe grass roots *not said here* | | | the ground | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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:377-ukraine-s-plants-sunflowers-viburnum-poppies-lime-trees-and-steppe-grasses.lesson:5`. **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. 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