The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 4
So a story about a river bank can also be a geography lesson about the whole of Europe.
Who acts: story · What happens: be · To what, where: geography lesson
This is a sentence of the lesson «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» 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 (story), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 13 lesson | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lesson | nsubj |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bank | compound |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 lesson | aux |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 lesson | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 lesson | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 lesson | det |
| 12 | geography | geography | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lesson | compound |
| 13 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | about | about | ADP | _ | 16 whole | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 whole | det |
| 16 | whole | whole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lesson | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Europe | case |
| 18 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 whole | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lesson | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | can | a story about a river bank | a geography lesson | about the whole of Europe | tree rules |
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:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:4.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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