--- title: When water or wind slows down, it drops what it carries, a process c… — Weathering and erosion · tree and pragmatics description: When water or wind slows down, it drops what it carries, a process called deposition. Who acts: water, process. A sentence of the lesson «Weathering and erosion» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/15/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Weathering and erosion](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/) / 15 # Weathering and erosion, sentence 15 When water or wind slows down, it drops what it carries, a process called deposition. **Who acts:** water, process · **What happens:** slow down, drop, carry, call · **To what, where:** process, deposition · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Weathering and erosion» of the geography 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 (water, process), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:052-weathering-and-erosion.lesson:15 # text = When water or wind slows down, it drops what it carries, a process called deposition. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 052-weathering-and-erosion.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 ×2 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 5 mark _ _ 2 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 or or CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 5 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 6 down down ADP RP _ 5 compound:prt _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:conj 10 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 12 obj _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 process process NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 15 acl _ _ 17 deposition deposition NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 xcomp _ _ 18 . . PUNCT . _ 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 | **slow down** | present | water or wind | a process | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 2 | **drop** | present | water | | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | present | water | | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 4 | **call** | participle | a process *not said here* | deposition | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:geography:052-weathering-and-erosion.lesson:15`. **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 ×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: [Weathering and erosion, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/14/) - next →: [Weathering and erosion, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/52-weathering-and-erosion/)