Rivers shaping the land, sentence 8
A river flows from its source in the hills to its mouth at the sea, a lake or another river.
Who acts: river · What happens: flow · To what, where: source
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | nsubj |
| 3 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 source | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 source | nmod:poss |
| 6 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hills | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hills | det |
| 9 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 source | nmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 mouth | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flows | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sea | det |
| 15 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouth | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lake | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lake | det |
| 18 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mouth | appos |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 river | cc |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 river | det |
| 21 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lake | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flows | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | a river | river's source in the hills | to river's mouth at the sea | 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:8.
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): no change. 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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