Campfires, cold nights and rivers, sentence 22
Fast rivers are much stronger than they look, and even shallow fast water can knock a person over.
Who acts: Fast rivers, Rivers, shallow fast water · What happens: be, look, knock over · To what, where: person
This is a sentence of the lesson «Campfires, cold nights and rivers» of the everyday 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 (Fast rivers, Rivers, shallow fast water), 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 | Fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rivers | amod |
| 2 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stronger | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stronger | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 stronger | advmod |
| 5 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 look | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 look | nsubj |
| 8 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stronger | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 knock | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 knock | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 14 water | advmod |
| 12 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 water | amod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 water | amod |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knock | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 knock | aux |
| 16 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 look | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 person | det |
| 18 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 knock | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 knock | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stronger | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Fast rivers | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | present | Rivers = river | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | knock over | can | shallow fast water | a person | over property | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent person=Patient |
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:everyday:231-campfires-and-rivers.lesson:22.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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