Rivers, lakes and ponds, sentence 14

After heavy rain, water rushing off the land makes rivers faster, higher and brown with soil, and the Amazon carries more water than the next several biggest rivers put together.

Who acts: water, Amazon, next several biggest rivers · What happens: rush off, make, carry, put together · To what, where: land, rivers, more water

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and ponds» of the biology 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 (water, Amazon, next several biggest rivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	After	after	ADP	_	3 rain	case
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rain	amod
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 makes	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 water	punct
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 makes	nsubj
6	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 water	acl
7	off	off	ADP	_	9 land	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 land	det
9	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rushing	obl
10	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 makes	obj
12	faster	fast	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 makes	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 higher	punct
14	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 faster	conj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 brown	cc
16	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 faster	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	18 soil	case
18	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 brown	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 carries	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 carries	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Amazon	det
22	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 carries	nsubj
23	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 makes	conj
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 water	amod
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 carries	obj
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 put	mark
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 rivers	det
28	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rivers	amod
29	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 rivers	amod
30	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 rivers	amod
31	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 put	nsubj
32	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 carries	advcl
33	together	together	ADV	_	32 put	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 makes	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	rush off	gerund	water not said here	the land			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Trajectory
2	make	present	water	rivers	after heavy rain	fast property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset river=Product
3	carry	present	the Amazon	more water			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
4	put together	past	the next several biggest rivers			together property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=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, 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:biology:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson:14.

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.

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