Rivers shaping the land, sentence 7
Over millions of years the Colorado River cut the Grand Canyon about 1.8 km deep.
Who acts: Colorado River · What happens: cut · To what, where: Grand Canyon, millions
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 (Colorado 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 | Over | over | ADP | _ | 2 millions | case |
| 2 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cut | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 millions | nmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 River | det |
| 6 | Colorado | Colorado | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 River | compound |
| 7 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | nsubj |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Canyon | det |
| 10 | Grand | Grand | PROPN | _ | 11 Canyon | compound |
| 11 | Canyon | Canyon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obj |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 1.8 | advmod |
| 13 | 1.8 | 1.8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 km | nummod |
| 14 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 deep | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cut | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cut | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut | past | the Colorado River | the Grand Canyon | millions of years | deep property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canyon=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:7.
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, 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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