--- title: Soil texture depends on how much sand, silt (grains finer than sand)… — Soil · tree and pragmatics description: Soil texture depends on how much sand, silt (grains finer than sand) and clay it has; clay holds water and drains badly, sand drains at once, and loam, a balanced mix, is the best for farming. Who acts: Soil texture, texture, clay, sand. A sentence of the lesson «Soil» of the geography course of Mov --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/12/) [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/) / 12 # Soil, sentence 12 Soil texture depends on how much sand, silt (grains finer than sand) and clay it has; clay holds water and drains badly, sand drains at once, and loam, a balanced mix, is the best for farming. **Who acts:** Soil texture, texture, clay, sand, loam · **What happens:** depend, have, hold, drain, balance, be · **To what, where:** clay, water 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 texture, texture, clay, sand), 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:12 # text = Soil texture depends on how much sand, silt (grains finer than sand) and clay it has; clay holds water and drains badly, sand drains at once, and loam, a balanced mix, is the best for farming. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4 1 Soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 texture texture NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 6 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 silt silt NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ _ 10 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 11 grains grain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nsubj _ _ 12 finer finer ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 acl _ _ 13 than than ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:nmod 15 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 12 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=9:conj 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 acl:relcl _ _ 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 clay clay NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 holds hold VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 drains drain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 26 badly badly ADV RB Degree=Pos 25 advmod _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 29 drains drain VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ _ 30 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 34 loam loam NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 balanced balance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 38 amod _ _ 38 mix mix NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 appos _ _ 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 42 cop _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 3 parataxis _ _ 43 for for ADP IN _ 44 case _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=44:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 44 farming farming NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=42:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **depend** | present | Soil texture | | | | | on much sand and silt and clay | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on sand=Theme | | 2 | **have** | present | texture | clay *not said here* | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clay=Patient | | 3 | **hold** | present | clay | water | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **drain** | present | clay *not said here* | | | | | badly *property* | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 5 | **drain** | present | sand | | | | | | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source | | 6 | **balance** | participle | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **is** | present | loam | | | | | for farming; good *property* | tree rules | 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:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×4. **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, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/11/) - next →: [Soil, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/56-soil/)