--- title: Water can also vanish: the Aral Sea shrank to about a tenth because… — Islands, seas and lakes · tree and pragmatics description: Water can also vanish: the Aral Sea shrank to about a tenth because its rivers were taken for farms, and boats now lie in the desert. Who acts: Water, Aral Sea, boats. 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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 (Water, Aral Sea, boats), 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:4 # text = Water can also vanish: the Aral Sea shrank to about a tenth because its rivers were taken for farms, and boats now lie in the desert. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Water Water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 also also ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 vanish vanish VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 Aral Aral PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 shrank shrink VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:conj 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 tenth tenth NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 because because SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux:pass _ _ 18 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 advcl _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 farms farm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 25 advmod _ _ 25 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vanish** | can | Water | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shrink** | past | the Aral Sea | | | | | to a tenth *result* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to tenth=Result | | 3 | **take** | past · passive | | sea's rivers | | | | for farms | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for farm=Beneficiary | | 4 | **lie** | present | boats | | | the desert | now | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in desert=Location | 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:4`. **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, R7-rel-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, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/3/) - next →: [Islands, seas and lakes, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/6-islands-seas-and-lakes/)