Rivers shaping the land, sentence 14
A delta forms where a river drops its sediment at the mouth faster than the sea can carry it away.
Who acts: delta, river, sea · What happens: form, drop, carry away · To what, where: sediment, mouth, river
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 (delta, river, sea), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 delta | det |
| 2 | delta | delta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 forms | nsubj |
| 3 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 drops | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | nsubj |
| 7 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 forms | advcl |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sediment | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sediment | sediment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | obj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mouth | det |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drops | obl |
| 13 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 drops | advmod |
| 14 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 18 carry | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 carry | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 carry | aux |
| 18 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 faster | advcl |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 carry | obj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 carry | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forms | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | present | a delta | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | drop | present | a river | river's sediment | the mouth | fast property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sediment=Theme at mouth=Destination | ||
| 3 | carry away | can | the sea | river | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:053-rivers-shaping-the-land.lesson:14.
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): no change. 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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