Rivers shaping the land, sentence 5
If it cuts across the neck of a loop, the old loop is left behind as an oxbow lake.
Who acts: river · What happens: cut, leave behind · To what, where: neck, old loop
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 cuts | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 cuts | nsubj |
| 3 | cuts | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | advcl |
| 4 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 neck | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 neck | det |
| 6 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cuts | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 loop | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 loop | det |
| 9 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 neck | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cuts | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 loop | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 loop | amod |
| 13 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 left | aux:pass |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 15 left | advmod |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 lake | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 lake | det |
| 19 | oxbow | oxbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lake | compound |
| 20 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 left | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut a condition, not said to happen | present | river | the neck of a loop | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across neck=Location | ||||
| 2 | leave behind | present · passive | the old loop | as a oxbow lake; behind property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:5.
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. 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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