--- title: It is a living mix of tiny bits of rock, rotting leaves and animals… — Soil · tree and pragmatics description: It is a living mix of tiny bits of rock, rotting leaves and animals called humus, water, air and countless living things, and almost all our food grows in it. Who acts: Soil, countless, food. A sentence of the lesson «Soil» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree an --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/1/) [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/) / [Soil](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/) / 1 # Soil, sentence 1 It is a living mix of tiny bits of rock, rotting leaves and animals called humus, water, air and countless living things, and almost all our food grows in it. **Who acts:** Soil, countless, food · **What happens:** be, rot, call, live, grow · **To what, where:** living mix, things, Soil · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Soil» 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 (Soil, countless, food), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:056-soil.lesson:1 # text = It is a living mix of tiny bits of rock, rotting leaves and animals called humus, water, air and countless living things, and almost all our food grows in it. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 056-soil.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 living living ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 rotting rot VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 13 amod _ _ 13 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 amod _ _ 17 humus humus NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 countless countless NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 24 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 acl _ _ 25 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 28 almost almost ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 31 det:predet _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:det:predet|HaikuPos=DET:DT:PronType=Tot 30 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 food food NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed hedge=0 | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | Soil | a living mix and rotting leaves called humus and water and air and countless and animals | | | | of tiny bits of rock | tree rules | | 2 | **rot** | gerund | | | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **call** | participle | | | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **live** | gerund | countless *not said here* | things | | | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location | | 5 | **grow** | present | our food | | | Soil | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location | 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:056-soil.lesson:1`. **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): 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: [Soil, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/0/) - next →: [Soil, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/)