Rivers shaping the land, sentence 17
River floods are among the deadliest natural disasters, especially on big rivers like the Yellow River in China.
Who acts: River floods · What happens: be · To what, where: big rivers
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 floods), 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 | River | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 floods | compound |
| 2 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disasters | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 disasters | cop |
| 4 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 disasters | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 disasters | det |
| 6 | deadliest | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 disasters | amod |
| 7 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 disasters | amod |
| 8 | disasters | disaster | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rivers | punct |
| 10 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 13 rivers | advmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rivers | case |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rivers | amod |
| 13 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disasters | nmod |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 River | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 River | det |
| 16 | Yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 River | amod |
| 17 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rivers | nmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 China | case |
| 19 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 River | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 disasters | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | River floods | big rivers like the Yellow River in China | among the deadliest natural disasters | tree rules |
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:17.
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, R8-pos-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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