--- title: The Baltic Sea is brackish, much less salty than the ocean, because… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics description: The Baltic Sea is brackish, much less salty than the ocean, because many rivers pour fresh water into it and its only exit is through narrow Danish straits. Who acts: Baltic Sea, many rivers, only exit. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Baltic Sea, many rivers, only exit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.lesson:14 # text = The Baltic Sea is brackish, much less salty than the ocean, because many rivers pour fresh water into it and its only exit is through narrow Danish straits. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 006-islands-seas-and-lakes.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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Baltic Baltic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 amod _ _ 3 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 brackish brackish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 much much ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 9 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:obl 10 than than ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:nmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 15 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nsubj _ _ 17 pour pour VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 18 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 into into ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 obl _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 24 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 exit exit NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 cop _ _ 27 through through ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 Danish danish ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 straits strait NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 conj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Baltic Sea | | | | | brackish *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **be** | | the Baltic Sea *not said here* | | | | | than the ocean; less *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **pour** | present | many rivers | fresh water | | water | | | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme into it=Destination | | 4 | **is** | present | water's only exit | | | narrow Danish straits | | | 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:006-islands-seas-and-lakes.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 ×2. **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: [Islands, seas and lakes, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/13/) - next →: [Islands, seas and lakes, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/)