--- title: How salty a sea is depends on a simple balance: lots of rivers make… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics description: How salty a sea is depends on a simple balance: lots of rivers make it fresher, like the Baltic, and strong sun and few rivers make it saltier, like the Mediterranean. Who acts: sea, lots, strong sun. 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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 (sea, lots, strong sun), 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:2 # text = How salty a sea is depends on a simple balance: lots of rivers make it fresher, like the Baltic, and strong sun and few rivers make it saltier, like the Mediterranean. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 How how ADV WRB PronType=Int 2 advmod _ _ 2 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 csubj _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 cop _ _ 6 depends depend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 simple simple ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 balance balance NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 11 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 12 lots lot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 14 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 nmod _ _ 15 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 parataxis _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 obj _ _ 17 fresher fresher ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 15 xcomp _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Baltic Baltic PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 24 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 sun sun NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 29 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 saltier salty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 29 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 like like ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Mediterranean Mediterranean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | a sea | | | | | salty *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **depend** | present | | | | | | on a simple balance | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S\_ING»: agent=Agent on balance=Theme | | 3 | **make** | present | lots of rivers | sea | | | | like the Baltic; fresher *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | | 4 | **make** | present | strong sun and few rivers | sea | | | | salty *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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: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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Islands, seas and lakes, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/1/) - next →: [Islands, seas and lakes, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/)