--- title: The sea is salty because rain wears tiny bits of minerals from rocks… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics description: The sea is salty because rain wears tiny bits of minerals from rocks and rivers carry them to the sea; the water evaporates (dries up into the air) and the salt stays behind. Who acts: sea, rain, rocks, water. 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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, rain, rocks, water), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:17 # text = The sea is salty because rain wears tiny bits of minerals from rocks and rivers carry them to the sea; the water evaporates (dries up into the air) and the salt stays behind. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = myths # lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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 ×3 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 4 salty salty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 5 because because SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:case 6 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 7 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 bits bit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 minerals mineral NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 conj _ _ 16 carry carry VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 17 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 evaporates evaporate VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 26 dries dry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=24:conj 27 up up ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 28 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:obl 31 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 26 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 salt salt NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 stays stay VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 36 behind behind ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=35:obl|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 37 . . 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 | **is** | present | the sea | | | | | salty *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **wear** | present | rain | tiny bits of minerals | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Source | | 3 | **carry** | present | rocks and rivers | bits *= bit* | | the sea | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to sea=Destination | | 4 | **evaporate** | present | the water | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **dry up** | present | | | | the air | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **stay** | present | the salt | | | | | behind *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:17`. **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 ×3. **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. 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