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title: Soil is a mix of tiny rock pieces, rotting plant and animal matter c… — Soil · tree and pragmatics
description: Soil is a mix of tiny rock pieces, rotting plant and animal matter called humus, water, air and living things. Who acts: Soil, plant matter. 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 7

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Soil is a mix of tiny rock pieces, rotting plant and animal matter called humus, water, air and living things.

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**Who acts:** Soil, plant matter · **What happens:** be, rot, call · **To what, where:** mix, humus · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Soil, plant matter), 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:7
# text = Soil is a mix of tiny rock pieces, rotting plant and animal matter called humus, water, air and living things.
# 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): R5-strong ×1
1	Soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	rotting	rot	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	appos	_	_
11	plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:obj
15	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
16	humus	humus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	xcomp	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	living	living	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- 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 | **is a** | present | Soil | a mix |  |  |  | of tiny rock pieces and plant matter and air and living things | tree rules |
| 2 | **rot** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **call** | participle | plant matter and air and living things *not said here* | humus and water |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7`.

**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): R5-strong ×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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