Population and cities, sentence 3
They crowd into river valleys, coastal plains and fertile lowlands, and leave deserts, high mountains and icy lands nearly empty; look at Egypt, where almost everyone lives in the thin green strip along the Nile.
Who acts: people, everyone · What happens: crowd, leave, look, live · To what, where: river valleys, deserts, thin green strip
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 (people, everyone), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 crowd | nsubj |
| 2 | crowd | crowd | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 valleys | case |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 valleys | compound |
| 5 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 crowd | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plains | punct |
| 7 | coastal | coastal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 plains | amod |
| 8 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 valleys | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lowlands | cc |
| 10 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 lowlands | amod |
| 11 | lowlands | lowland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 valleys | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 leave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 leave | cc |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 crowd | conj |
| 15 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 leave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mountains | punct |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 mountains | amod |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 deserts | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mountains | cc |
| 20 | icy | icy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lands | amod |
| 21 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 deserts | conj |
| 22 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 23 empty | advmod |
| 23 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 leave | xcomp |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 look | punct |
| 25 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 crowd | parataxis |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 Egypt | case |
| 27 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 look | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lives | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 lives | advmod |
| 30 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 31 everyone | advmod |
| 31 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 32 lives | nsubj |
| 32 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 Egypt | acl:relcl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 strip | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 strip | det |
| 35 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 strip | amod |
| 36 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 strip | amod |
| 37 | strip | strip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lives | obl |
| 38 | along | along | ADP | _ | 40 Nile | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Nile | det |
| 40 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 strip | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crowd | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crowd | present | people | river valleys and coastal plains and fertile lowlands | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into valley=Destination | ||||
| 2 | leave | present | people not said here | deserts and high mountains and icy lands | empty property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Theme | |||
| 3 | look | infinitive | at Egypt | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at egypt=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live | present | everyone | the thin green strip along the Nile | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strip=Location |
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: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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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