--- title: Rich farm soil, like that of the American Great Plains, takes thousa… — Natural resources and why we must save them · tree and pragmatics description: Rich farm soil, like that of the American Great Plains, takes thousands of years to form, and wind and rain can carry it away quickly from bare fields. Who acts: Rich farm soil, wind. 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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 (Rich farm soil, wind), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:047-natural-resources.lesson:8 # text = Rich farm soil, like that of the American Great Plains, takes thousands of years to form, and wind and rain can carry it away quickly from bare fields. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 047-natural-resources.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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 2 farm farm NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 nmod _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 American American ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 10 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 Plains plain PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 6 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 12 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 13 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 14 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obj _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 17 to to PART TO _ 18 mark _ _ 18 form form VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 acl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 21 wind wind NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nsubj _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 23 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 conj _ _ 24 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 25 carry carry VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 obj _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 29 from from ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 bare bare ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 fields field NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | present | Rich farm soil like that | thousands of years | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Theme | | 2 | **form** | to-infinitive | Rich farm soil like that *not said here* | thousands of years *not said here* | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **carry away** | can | wind and rain | soil | | bare fields | | away, quickly *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme from field=Initial\_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:world:047-natural-resources.lesson:8`. **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): R8-pos-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: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/7/) - next →: [Natural resources and why we must save…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/47-natural-resources/)