--- title: Rivers carry tiny amounts of salt from rocks into the sea; water eva… — Water: the most amazing liquid · tree and pragmatics description: Rivers carry tiny amounts of salt from rocks into the sea; water evaporates from the sea but the salt stays behind, so the sea is salty. Who acts: Rivers, water, salt, sea. 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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 (Rivers, water, salt, sea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:chemistry:034-water-amazing-liquid.lesson:10 # text = Rivers carry tiny amounts of salt from rocks into the sea; water evaporates from the sea but the salt stays behind, so the sea is salty. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = chemistry # lesson = 034-water-amazing-liquid.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, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 amounts amount NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 5 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod _ _ 7 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 9 into into ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 12 ; ; PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 14 evaporates evaporate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 15 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 18 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 21 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 22 behind behind ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 24 so so ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 advcl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **carry** | present | Rivers | tiny amounts of salt | | rocks | | into the sea | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent amount=Theme from rock=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **evaporate** | present | water | | | the sea | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **stay** | present | the salt | | | | | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | the sea | | | | | salty *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **amount** | | | salt | | | | | 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:chemistry:034-water-amazing-liquid.lesson:10`. **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, R7-rel-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: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/9/) - next →: [Water: the most amazing liquid, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/34-water-amazing-liquid/)