The great rivers, sentence 14
The Rhine flows from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, and Rotterdam, near its mouth, is the largest port in Europe.
Who acts: Rhine, Rotterdam · What happens: flow, be · To what, where: Swiss Alps, largest port, Europe
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 (Rhine, Rotterdam), 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 Rhine | det |
| 2 | Rhine | Rhine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | nsubj |
| 3 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 Alps | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Alps | det |
| 6 | Swiss | Swiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Alps | amod |
| 7 | Alps | alp | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 flows | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sea | det |
| 10 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sea | compound |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 port | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 port | cc |
| 14 | Rotterdam | Rotterdam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 port | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Rotterdam | punct |
| 16 | near | near | ADP | _ | 18 mouth | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Rotterdam | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 port | punct |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 port | cop |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 port | det |
| 22 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 port | amod |
| 23 | port | port | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Europe | case |
| 25 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 port | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | the Rhine | the Swiss Alps | to the North Sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Rotterdam near Rhine's mouth | the largest port | Europe | tree rules |
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:14.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×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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