The British Isles and the United Kingdom, sentence 12

The River Severn is the UK's longest river at about 354 km, flowing from Wales to the Bristol Channel, and the Thames, about 346 km long, flows through London to the North Sea.

Who acts: River Severn, Thames · What happens: be, flow · To what, where: longest river, 354 km, Wales, London

This is a sentence of the lesson «The British Isles and the United Kingdom» 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 Severn, 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	3 Severn	det
2	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Severn	compound
3	Severn	Severn	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 river	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 river	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 UK	det
6	UK	UK	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 river	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 UK	case
8	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 river	amod
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 km	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 354	advmod
12	354	354	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 km	nummod
13	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 river	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flowing	punct
15	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 river	advcl
16	from	from	ADP	_	17 Wales	case
17	Wales	Wales	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 flowing	obl
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 Channel	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Channel	det
20	Bristol	Bristol	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Channel	compound
21	Channel	Channel	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 flowing	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 flows	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 flows	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Thames	det
25	Thames	Thames	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 flows	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Thames	punct
27	about	about	ADV	_	28 346	advmod
28	346	346	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 km	nummod
29	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 long	obl
30	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Thames	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 long	punct
32	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 river	conj
33	through	through	ADP	_	34 London	case
34	London	London	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 flows	obl
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 Sea	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Sea	det
37	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Sea	compound
38	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 flows	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 river	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the River Severn	the UK's longest river	354 km		tree rules
2	flow	gerund	the River Severn not said here		Wales	to the Bristol Channel	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	flow	present	the Thames		London	to the North Sea	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through london=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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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