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title: Yet it can be washed or blown away in one bad storm, and about a thi… — Soil · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet it can be washed or blown away in one bad storm, and about a third of the world's soils are already damaged. Who acts: world. 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 6

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Yet it can be washed or blown away in one bad storm, and about a third of the world's soils are already damaged.

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**Who acts:** world · **What happens:** wash, blow away, damage, soil · **To what, where:** Soil, one bad storm, third

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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 (world), 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:6
# text = Yet it can be washed or blown away in one bad storm, and about a third of the world's soils are already damaged.
# 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): no change
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
8	away	away	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
11	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
15	about	about	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	's	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	soils	soil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
24	already	already	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	damaged	damage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **wash** | can · passive |  | Soil |  |  |  |  | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **blow away** | participle |  |  |  | one bad storm |  | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **damage** | present · passive |  | a third of the world's soils |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 4 | **soil** |  | the world |  |  |  |  |  | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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:6`.

**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): no change. **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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