The great rivers, sentence 0
A great river collects rain from a huge area, called its basin, through thousands of smaller streams called tributaries, and carries it all to the sea or to a lake.
Who acts: great river, huge area, smaller streams · What happens: collect, call, carry · To what, where: rain, huge area, basin, thousands, tributaries, sea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography 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, huge area, smaller streams), 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 | 4 collects | nsubj |
| 4 | collects | collect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collects | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 area | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 area | det |
| 8 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 area | amod |
| 9 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 collects | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 area | acl |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 basin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 thousands | punct |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 thousands | case |
| 16 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 streams | case |
| 18 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 streams | amod |
| 19 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thousands | nmod |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 streams | acl |
| 21 | tributaries | tributary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 called | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carries | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 carries | cc |
| 24 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 collects | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carries | obj |
| 26 | all | all | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 carries | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 sea | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 sea | det |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carries | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 lake | cc |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 lake | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 lake | det |
| 33 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sea | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 collects | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | collect | present | a great river | rain | a huge area | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rain=Theme from area=Source | |||
| 2 | call | participle | a huge area not said here | river's basin | thousands of smaller streams | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent basin=Recipient | |||
| 3 | call | participle | smaller streams not said here | tributaries | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | carry | present | a great river not said here | basin | the sea or a lake | all property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sea=Destination |
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:geography:016-the-great-rivers.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): 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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