Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 16
The Nile is usually listed as the longest river, but some studies say the Amazon, because experts disagree about where each river starts; the Amazon carries by far the most water.
Who acts: studies, experts, river, Amazon · What happens: list, say, disagree, start, carry · To what, where: Nile, Amazon, most water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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 (studies, experts, river, Amazon), 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 Nile | det |
| 2 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 listed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 listed | aux:pass |
| 4 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 5 listed | advmod |
| 5 | listed | list | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 river | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 river | det |
| 8 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 river | amod |
| 9 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 listed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 say | cc |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 studies | det |
| 13 | studies | study | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 say | nsubj |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 listed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Amazon | det |
| 16 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 say | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 disagree | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 disagree | mark |
| 19 | experts | expert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 disagree | nsubj |
| 20 | disagree | disagree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | advcl |
| 21 | about | about | ADP | _ | 25 starts | case |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 starts | advmod |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 river | det |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 starts | nsubj |
| 25 | starts | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 disagree | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 carries | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Amazon | det |
| 28 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 carries | nsubj |
| 29 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 listed | parataxis |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 far | case |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 water | advmod |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 water | det |
| 33 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 water | amod |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carries | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | list | present · passive | the Nile | as the longest river; usually property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | some studies | the Amazon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent amazon=Topic | ||||
| 3 | disagree | present | experts | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | start | present | each river | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | carry | present | the Amazon | the most water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:16.
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, R7-rel-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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