--- title: Its soil is surprisingly poor, because fallen leaves rot fast and th… — Deserts, rainforests and grasslands · tree and pragmatics description: Its soil is surprisingly poor, because fallen leaves rot fast and the plants take the nutrients back at once. Who acts: soil, fallen leaves, plants, rainforest. 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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 (soil, fallen leaves, plants, rainforest), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.lesson:6 # text = Its soil is surprisingly poor, because fallen leaves rot fast and the plants take the nutrients back at once. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.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 1 Its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 surprisingly surprisingly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 7 because because SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 8 fallen fall VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ _ 9 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rot rot VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 11 fast fast ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=10:cc 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nsubj _ _ 15 take take VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 nutrients nutrient NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 18 back back ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 19 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 18 obl _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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 | rainforest's soil | | | | | poor, surprisingly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **fall** | participle | | | | | | | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **rot** | present | fallen leaves | | | | | fast *property* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **take** | present | the plants | the nutrients | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nutrient=Theme | | 5 | **soil** | | rainforest | | | | | | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent | 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:066-deserts-rainforests-grasslands.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. **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: [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/5/) - next →: [Deserts, rainforests and grasslands, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/66-deserts-rainforests-grasslands/)