Rivers shaping the land, sentence 1

It begins at its source, often a spring or a boggy patch in the hills, and ends at its mouth, where it meets the sea, a lake or another river.

Who acts: river · What happens: begin, end, meet · To what, where: source, mouth, sea

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers shaping the land» 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 (river), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begins	nsubj
2	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 source	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 source	nmod:poss
5	source	source	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begins	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spring	punct
7	often	often	ADV	_	9 spring	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 spring	det
9	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 source	appos
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 patch	cc
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 patch	det
12	boggy	boggy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 patch	amod
13	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 spring	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 hills	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 hills	det
16	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 patch	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ends	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ends	cc
19	ends	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 begins	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 mouth	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 mouth	nmod:poss
22	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ends	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 meets	punct
24	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	26 meets	advmod
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 meets	nsubj
26	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 mouth	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 sea	det
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 meets	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 lake	punct
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 lake	det
31	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sea	conj
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 river	cc
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	34 river	det
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 sea	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 begins	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	begin	present	river		river's source	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	end	present	river not said here		river's mouth	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	meet	present	river	the sea and a lake or another river		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Co-Agent

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:053-rivers-shaping-the-land.lesson:1.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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