The great rivers, sentence 11

The Mississippi and its tributaries, such as the Missouri and the Ohio, drain about two-fifths of the 48 neighbouring US states and together form a system about 6,000 km long.

Who acts: Mississippi · What happens: drain, neighbour, form · To what, where: two fifths, system

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 (Mississippi), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mississippi	det
2	Mississippi	Mississippi	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 drain	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tributaries	cc
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tributaries	nmod:poss
5	tributaries	tributary	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Mississippi	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tributaries	punct
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	10 Missouri	case
8	as	as	ADP	_	7 such	fixed
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Missouri	det
10	Missouri	Missouri	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tributaries	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Ohio	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ohio	det
13	Ohio	Ohio	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Missouri	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 drain	punct
15	drain	drain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	about	about	ADV	_	17 two	advmod
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 fifths	nummod
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 two	punct
19	fifths	fifth	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 drain	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	25 states	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 states	det
22	48	48	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 states	nummod
23	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 states	amod
24	US	US	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 states	compound
25	states	state	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fifths	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 form	cc
27	together	together	ADV	_	28 form	advmod
28	form	form	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 drain	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 system	det
30	system	system	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 form	obj
31	about	about	ADP	_	33 km	case
32	6,000	6000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	33 km	nummod
33	km	km	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 long	obl
34	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 system	amod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 drain	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drain	present	the Mississippi and Dam's tributaries such the Missouri and the Ohio	two fifths of the 48 neighbouring US states		vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fifth=Source
2	neighbour	gerund				tree rules
3	form	present	the Mississippi and Dam's tributaries such the Missouri and the Ohio not said here	a system	together property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location system=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:geography:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:11.

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, 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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