The great rivers, sentence 4
Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels join into bigger ones and run downhill to one place.
Who acts: you, little channels · What happens: think, pour, join, run · To what, where: bucket, sandpit
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 (you, little channels), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 3 pouring | mark |
| 3 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Think | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 bucket | det |
| 5 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pouring | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bucket | nmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sandpit | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sandpit | det |
| 10 | sandpit | sandpit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pouring | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 join | punct |
| 12 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 channels | amod |
| 13 | channels | channel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 join | nsubj |
| 14 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 ones | case |
| 16 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 ones | amod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 join | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 run | cc |
| 19 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 join | conj |
| 20 | downhill | downhill | ADV | _ | 19 run | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 place | case |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 place | nummod |
| 23 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 run | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pour | gerund | you not said here | a bucket of water | a sandpit | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient | |||
| 3 | join | present | little channels | into bigger ones | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient into one=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | run | infinitive | little channels not said here | to one place result; downhill property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result |
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:4.
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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