Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 0
A great river is a long road of water through the land, and wherever it spreads into swamps, lakes and floods, it becomes a wetland packed with life, from giant fish to pink flamingos.
Who acts: great river, river · What happens: be, spread, become, pack · To what, where: long road, land, swamps, wetland
This is a sentence of the lesson «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 (great river, river), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 river | amod |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 road | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 road | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 road | amod |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 road | nmod |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 land | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 land | det |
| 12 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 road | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 becomes | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 becomes | cc |
| 15 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 spreads | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spreads | nsubj |
| 17 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 becomes | advcl |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 swamps | case |
| 19 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 spreads | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 lakes | punct |
| 21 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 swamps | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 floods | cc |
| 23 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 swamps | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 spreads | punct |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 becomes | nsubj |
| 26 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 road | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 wetland | det |
| 28 | wetland | wetland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 becomes | xcomp |
| 29 | packed | pack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 wetland | acl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 life | case |
| 31 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 packed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 fish | punct |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 35 fish | case |
| 34 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 fish | amod |
| 35 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 packed | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 flamingos | case |
| 37 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 flamingos | amod |
| 38 | flamingos | flamingo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 packed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 road | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a great river | a long road | the land | of water | tree rules | ||
| 2 | spread | present | river | swamps and lakes and floods | wherever property | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into swamp=Destination | |||
| 3 | become | present | river | a wetland | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pack | participle | a wetland not said here | with life; from giant fish; to pink flamingos | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with life=Theme |
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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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