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title: Loam is a mix of sand, silt, clay and humus and is good for most pla… — Soil and what lives in it · tree and pragmatics
description: Loam is a mix of sand, silt, clay and humus and is good for most plants. Who acts: Loam. A sentence of the lesson «Soil and what lives in it» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Soil and what lives in it, sentence 13

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Loam is a mix of sand, silt, clay and humus and is good for most plants.

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**Who acts:** Loam · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** mix

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Soil and what lives in it» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Loam), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:063-soil-and-what-lives-in-it.lesson:13
# text = Loam is a mix of sand, silt, clay and humus and is good for most plants.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 063-soil-and-what-lives-in-it.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
1	Loam	loam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mix	mix	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	silt	silt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	clay	clay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	humus	humus	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
18	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Loam | a mix and clay and humus |  |  |  | of sand and silt | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | Loam *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for most plants; good *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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:063-soil-and-what-lives-in-it.lesson:13`.

**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. **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/).

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