The great rivers, sentence 12
The Volga, about 3,500 km long, is the longest river in Europe, and it flows into the Caspian Sea, not into an ocean.
Who acts: Volga · What happens: be, flow · To what, where: longest river, Europe, Caspian Sea
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 (Volga), 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 Volga | det |
| 2 | Volga | Volga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 river | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 3,500 | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 3,500 | advmod |
| 5 | 3,500 | 3500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 km | nummod |
| 6 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 long | obl |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Volga | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Volga | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 river | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 river | det |
| 11 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 river | amod |
| 12 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Europe | case |
| 14 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 river | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flows | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flows | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 flows | nsubj |
| 18 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 river | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 Sea | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Sea | det |
| 21 | Caspian | Caspian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Sea | compound |
| 22 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 flows | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 ocean | punct |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 ocean | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 ocean | case |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ocean | det |
| 27 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Sea | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 river | 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 | is a | present | the Volga | the longest river | Europe | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flow | present | Volga | the Caspian Sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:geography:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:12.
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. 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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