Population and cities, sentence 20
Most great cities grew at useful spots: river crossings, natural harbours, estuaries or meeting points of trade routes.
Who acts: Most great cities · What happens: grow, point · To what, where: useful spots, trade routes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» 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 (Most great cities), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 cities | amod |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cities | amod |
| 3 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 spots | case |
| 6 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spots | amod |
| 7 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 grew | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 crossings | punct |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crossings | compound |
| 10 | crossings | crossing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spots | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 harbours | punct |
| 12 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 harbours | amod |
| 13 | harbours | harbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crossings | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 estuaries | punct |
| 15 | estuaries | estuary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crossings | conj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 points | cc |
| 17 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 points | compound |
| 18 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crossings | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 routes | case |
| 20 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 routes | compound |
| 21 | routes | route | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 points | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | 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 | grow | past | Most great cities | useful spots | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at spot=Location | ||||
| 2 | point | trade routes | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:024-population-and-cities.lesson:20.
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): 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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