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title: Dig a deep hole in a garden and you see layers: dark crumbly topsoil… — Soil · tree and pragmatics
description: Dig a deep hole in a garden and you see layers: dark crumbly topsoil, paler subsoil under it, then broken rock, and at the bottom solid bedrock. Who acts: you. A sentence of the lesson «Soil» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Soil, sentence 2

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Dig a deep hole in a garden and you see layers: dark crumbly topsoil, paler subsoil under it, then broken rock, and at the bottom solid bedrock.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** dig, see, break · **To what, where:** deep hole, garden, layers

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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 (you), 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:2
# text = Dig a deep hole in a garden and you see layers: dark crumbly topsoil, paler subsoil under it, then broken rock, and at the bottom solid bedrock.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Dig	dig	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=1:cc
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
11	layers	layer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	crumbly	crumbly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	topsoil	topsoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	paler	pale	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	amod	_	_
18	subsoil	subsoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=15:appos
19	under	under	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
24	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	bottom	bottom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
30	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	bedrock	bedrock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: command
- act: request
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dig** | imperative | you *not said here* | a deep hole |  | a garden |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hole=Theme in garden=Location |
| 2 | **see** | present | you | layers |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer layer=Stimulus |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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:2`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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/).

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