Rivers shaping the land, sentence 2
High up, the river is fast and steep and cuts down into the land, making a deep V-shaped valley.
Who acts: river · What happens: be, cut down, make, shape · To what, where: deep shaped valley
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 | High | hi | ADV | _ | 7 fast | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 1 High | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fast | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fast | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fast | cop |
| 7 | fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 steep | cc |
| 9 | steep | steep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fast | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 cuts | cc |
| 11 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fast | conj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 cuts | advmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 land | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 land | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cuts | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 making | punct |
| 17 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 cuts | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 valley | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 valley | amod |
| 20 | V | v | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shaped | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 V | punct |
| 22 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 valley | amod |
| 23 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 making | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fast | 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 | the river | fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the river not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | cut down | present | the river not said here | into the land; down property | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent into land=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | the river not said here | a deep shaped valley | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset valley=Product | ||||
| 5 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×1, 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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