Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 3

Water even moves across a desert: in Botswana the Okavango river floods in the middle of the dry season, because rain that fell far away takes months to arrive.

Who acts: Water, Okavango river, rain · What happens: move, flood, fall, take, arrive · To what, where: desert, middle

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 (Water, Okavango river, rain), 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	Water	Water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	nsubj
2	even	even	ADV	_	3 moves	advmod
3	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 desert	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 desert	det
6	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 moves	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 Botswana	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Botswana	case
9	Botswana	Botswana	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 desert	appos
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
11	Okavango	Okavango	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 river	compound
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floods	nsubj
13	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Botswana	parataxis
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 floods	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 season	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 season	det
19	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 season	amod
20	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 middle	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 takes	punct
22	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 takes	mark
23	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 takes	nsubj
24	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 fell	nsubj
25	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 rain	acl:relcl
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 away	advmod
27	away	away	ADV	_	25 fell	advmod
28	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 floods	advcl
29	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 takes	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 arrive	mark
31	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 takes	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 moves	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	move	present	Water	a desert			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across desert=Trajectory
2	flood	present	the Okavango river	the middle of the dry season			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fall	past	rain			away property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take	present	rain		month		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	arrive	to-infinitive	rain not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.

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): R5-strong ×2, 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.

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