Rivers shaping the land, sentence 6

Floods spread mud on flat land beside the river, making a fertile flood plain, and at the mouth the river may drop its mud to build a delta.

Who acts: Floods, river · What happens: spread, make, drop, build · To what, where: mud, flat land, fertile flood plain, mouth, delta

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 (Floods, 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	Floods	flood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 spread	nsubj
2	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 land	case
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spread	obl
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 land	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 making	punct
11	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 spread	advcl
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 plain	det
13	fertile	fertile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 plain	amod
14	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plain	compound
15	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 making	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drop	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drop	cc
18	at	at	ADP	_	20 mouth	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mouth	det
20	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drop	obl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drop	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 drop	aux
24	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 spread	conj
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mud	nmod:poss
26	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drop	obj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 build	mark
28	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 drop	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 delta	det
30	delta	delta	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 build	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 spread	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	spread	present	Floods	mud	flat land beside the river	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme on land=Destination
2	make	gerund	Floods not said here	a fertile flood plain		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plain=Product
3	drop	may	the river	river's mud	the mouth	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme at mouth=Destination
4	build	to-infinitive	the river not said here	a delta		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset delta=Product

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:6.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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