The great rivers, sentence 3
The game makes rivers mostly lines that slow armies down, but real rivers also bring water, rich silt for farms, fish, power and roads for boats.
Who acts: game, lines, real rivers · What happens: make, slow down, bring · To what, where: rivers, armies, water
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 (game, lines, real rivers), 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 game | det |
| 2 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | obj |
| 5 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 6 lines | advmod |
| 6 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 slow | nsubj |
| 8 | slow | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 lines | acl:relcl |
| 9 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 slow | obj |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 slow | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 bring | cc |
| 13 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 rivers | amod |
| 14 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bring | nsubj |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 bring | advmod |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 makes | conj |
| 17 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 silt | punct |
| 19 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 silt | amod |
| 20 | silt | silt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 water | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 farms | case |
| 22 | farms | farm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 silt | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 fish | punct |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 farms | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 power | punct |
| 26 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 farms | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 roads | cc |
| 28 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 farms | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 boats | case |
| 30 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 roads | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the game | rivers | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset river=Product | ||||
| 2 | slow down | present | lines | armies | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent army=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | real rivers | water and rich silt for farms and fish and power and roads for boats | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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