--- title: Wetlands such as marshes and swamps soak up flood water like a spong… — Rivers, lakes and the sea up close · tree and pragmatics description: Wetlands such as marshes and swamps soak up flood water like a sponge, clean the water, and are home to many birds, frogs and fish. Who acts: Wetlands. 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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 (Wetlands), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:6 # text = Wetlands such as marshes and swamps soak up flood water like a sponge, clean the water, and are home to many birds, frogs and fish. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 Wetlands wetland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nsubj 2 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP 4 case _ _ 3 as as ADP IN _ 2 fixed _ _ 4 marshes marsh NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=4:cc 6 swamps swamp NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 7 soak soak VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 sponge sponge NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 clean clean VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 cop _ _ 21 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:conj|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=21:obl 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 frogs frog NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **soak up** | present | Wetlands such marshes and swamps | flood water | | | | like a sponge | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source | | 2 | **clean** | present | Wetlands such marshes and swamps *not said here* | the water | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | | | | | | to many birds and frogs and fish | tree rules | 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:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:6`. **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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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: [Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/5/) - next →: [Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/)