Rivers shaping the land, sentence 4
Lower down the river slows and swings in big loops called meanders, like a snake.
Who acts: river, big loops · What happens: slow, swing, call · To what, where: meanders · Speech: someone speaks here
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, big loops), 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 | Lower | lower | ADV | _ | 5 slows | advmod |
| 2 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 slows | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 river | det |
| 4 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slows | nsubj |
| 5 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 swings | cc |
| 7 | swings | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 slows | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 loops | case |
| 9 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 loops | amod |
| 10 | loops | loop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 swings | obl |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 loops | acl |
| 12 | meanders | meander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 snake | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 snake | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 snake | det |
| 16 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slows | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slow | present | the river | like a snake; down, lower property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | swing | present | the river not said here | in big loops | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in loop=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | big loops not said here | meanders | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4.
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 ×2. 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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