Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 19
Fast boats make waves called wash that wear away river banks, which is one reason for the canal speed limit and why the Rat shouted at the steam-launches.
Who acts: Fast boats, waves, Rat · What happens: make, call, wear away, be, shout · To what, where: waves, wash, river banks, one reason, steam launches · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat» of the technology 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 (Fast boats, waves, Rat), 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 | Fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 boats | amod |
| 2 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | obj |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 waves | acl |
| 6 | wash | wash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 called | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 wear | nsubj |
| 8 | wear | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waves | acl:relcl |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 banks | advmod |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 banks | compound |
| 11 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wear | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reason | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 reason | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 reason | cop |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 reason | nummod |
| 16 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wear | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 limit | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 limit | det |
| 19 | canal | canal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 speed | compound |
| 20 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 limit | compound |
| 21 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reason | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 shouted | cc |
| 23 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 shouted | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Rat | det |
| 25 | Rat | Rat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 shouted | nsubj |
| 26 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reason | conj |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 launches | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 launches | det |
| 29 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 launches | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 steam | punct |
| 31 | launches | launch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 shouted | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Fast boats | waves | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material wave=Product | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | waves not said here | wash | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | wear away | present | waves | river banks | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bank=Source | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | one reason | for the speed limit | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shout speech: express | past | the Rat | the steam launches | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:19.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×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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