Rivers shaping the land, sentence 3
Where it pours over a band of hard rock lying on soft rock, the soft rock wears back faster and a waterfall forms.
Who acts: river, hard rock, soft rock, waterfall · What happens: pour, lie, wear, form · To what, where: band, soft rock
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, hard rock, soft rock, waterfall), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 pours | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pours | nsubj |
| 3 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wears | advcl |
| 4 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 band | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 band | det |
| 6 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pours | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 rock | case |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 rock | amod |
| 9 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 band | nmod |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 rock | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 12 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 rock | amod |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wears | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rock | det |
| 16 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rock | amod |
| 17 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wears | nsubj |
| 18 | wears | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 20 faster | advmod |
| 20 | faster | fast | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 wears | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 forms | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 waterfall | det |
| 23 | waterfall | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forms | nsubj |
| 24 | forms | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wears | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 wears | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pour | present | river | a band of hard rock | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over band=Location | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | hard rock not said here | soft rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ||||
| 3 | wear | present | the soft rock | fast property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | form | present | a waterfall | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: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): R6-punct-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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