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title: Many rainforest soils are surprisingly poor, because heavy rain wash… — Soil · tree and pragmatics
description: Many rainforest soils are surprisingly poor, because heavy rain washes nutrients out and most nutrients are stored in the plants. Who acts: Many rainforest soils, heavy rain. A sentence of the lesson «Soil» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Soil, sentence 14

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Many rainforest soils are surprisingly poor, because heavy rain washes nutrients out and most nutrients are stored in the plants.

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**Who acts:** Many rainforest soils, heavy rain · **What happens:** be, wash out, store · **To what, where:** nutrients, most nutrients, plants

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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 (Many rainforest soils, heavy rain), 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:14
# text = Many rainforest soils are surprisingly poor, because heavy rain washes nutrients out and most nutrients are stored in the plants.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	soils	soil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
4	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	surprisingly	surprisingly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	rain	rain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	washes	wash	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
12	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
13	out	out	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
16	nutrients	nutrient	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: neg
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Many rainforest soils |  |  |  |  | poor, surprisingly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wash out** | present | heavy rain | nutrients |  |  |  | out *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nutrient=Patient |
| 3 | **store** | present · passive |  | most nutrients |  | the plants |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme in plant=Location |

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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.

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**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:14`.

**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): 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/).

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