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title: Plant roots hold soil in place, so bare soil is easily washed or blo… — Soil and what lives in it · tree and pragmatics
description: Plant roots hold soil in place, so bare soil is easily washed or blown away; this loss is called soil erosion. Who acts: Plant roots. 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 15

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Plant roots hold soil in place, so bare soil is easily washed or blown away; this loss is called soil erosion.

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**Who acts:** Plant roots · **What happens:** hold, wash, blow away, call · **To what, where:** soil, place, bare soil, loss · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Plant roots), 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:15
# text = Plant roots hold soil in place, so bare soil is easily washed or blown away; this loss is called soil erosion.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Plant	plant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
9	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
12	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	_
16	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
22	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	erosion	erosion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	xcomp	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present | Plant roots | soil |  | place |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent soil=Theme in place=Location |
| 2 | **wash** | present · passive |  | bare soil |  |  |  | easily *property* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **blow away** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | away *property* | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **call** | present · passive |  | this loss |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |

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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:15`.

**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): 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/).

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