The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 5
The Thames is about 346 km long; it rises in the Cotswold hills near Kemble, flows through Oxford, Reading and Windsor, and reaches the North Sea through London and a wide estuary.
Who acts: Thames · What happens: be, rise, flow, reach · To what, where: Thames, Cotswold hills, Oxford, North Sea, London
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 (Thames), 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 Thames | det |
| 2 | Thames | Thames | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 long | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 346 | advmod |
| 5 | 346 | 346 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 km | nummod |
| 6 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 long | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 rises | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rises | nsubj |
| 10 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Thames | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 hills | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hills | det |
| 13 | Cotswold | cotswold | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hills | compound |
| 14 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rises | obl |
| 15 | near | near | ADP | _ | 16 Kemble | case |
| 16 | Kemble | Kemble | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 hills | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flows | punct |
| 18 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 rises | conj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 Oxford | case |
| 20 | Oxford | Oxford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 flows | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Reading | punct |
| 22 | Reading | Reading | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Oxford | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 Windsor | cc |
| 24 | Windsor | Windsor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Oxford | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 reaches | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 reaches | cc |
| 27 | reaches | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 long | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sea | det |
| 29 | North | North | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Sea | compound |
| 30 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 reaches | obj |
| 31 | through | through | ADP | _ | 32 London | case |
| 32 | London | London | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 reaches | obl |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 estuary | cc |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 estuary | det |
| 35 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 estuary | amod |
| 36 | estuary | estuary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 London | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 long | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Thames | 346 km obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rise | present | Thames | the Thames not said here | the Cotswold hills | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thames=Theme | |||
| 3 | flow | present | Thames not said here | Oxford and Reading and Windsor | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through oxford=Location | ||||
| 4 | reach | present | the Thames not said here | the North Sea | London and a wide estuary | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=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:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:5.
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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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