The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 12
The Armadillos' «turbid Amazon» is the Amazon in South America (turbid means muddy); it carries more water than any other river on Earth and flows through the biggest rainforest in the world.
Who acts: Amazon », turbid, » · What happens: be, mean, carry, flow · To what, where: Amazon, South America, more water, biggest rainforest
This is a sentence of the lesson «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» 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 (Amazon », turbid, »), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Armadillos | det |
| 2 | Armadillos | armadillo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 » | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 2 Armadillos | case |
| 4 | « | « | PUNCT | _ | 7 » | punct |
| 5 | turbid | turbid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Amazon | amod |
| 6 | Amazon | amazon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 » | compound |
| 7 | » | » | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Amazon | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Amazon | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Amazon | det |
| 10 | Amazon | amazon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carries | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 America | case |
| 12 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 America | compound |
| 13 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Amazon | nmod |
| 14 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 15 | turbid | turbid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 means | nsubj |
| 16 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 America | parataxis |
| 17 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 means | xcomp |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 16 means | punct |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 carries | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 carries | nsubj |
| 21 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 water | amod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carries | obj |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 river | case |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 river | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 river | amod |
| 27 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 carries | obl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 Earth | case |
| 29 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 river | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 flows | cc |
| 31 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 carries | conj |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 rainforest | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 rainforest | det |
| 34 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 rainforest | amod |
| 35 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flows | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 world | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 world | det |
| 38 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rainforest | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Amazon | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Armadillos's Amazon » | the Amazon | South America | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mean | present | turbid | muddy property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | » | more water | than any other river on Earth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 4 | flow | present | » not said here | the biggest rainforest in the world | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through rainforest=Location |
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:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:12.
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, R6-punct-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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