Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mills, barges and how not to tip a rowing boat, sentence 5
Rivers were tamed too: weirs keep the water deep enough for boats and drive water-mills, but the churning water below a weir is one of the most dangerous places to swim.
Who acts: weirs, churning water · What happens: tame, keep, drive, churn, be, swim · To what, where: Rivers, water, water mills, one
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 (weirs, churning water), 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 | Rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tamed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tamed | aux:pass |
| 3 | tamed | tame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 3 tamed | advmod |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 keep | punct |
| 6 | weirs | weir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keep | nsubj |
| 7 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tamed | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keep | obj |
| 10 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 10 deep | advmod |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 boats | case |
| 13 | boats | boat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 deep | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drive | cc |
| 15 | drive | drive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 keep | conj |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mills | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 water | punct |
| 18 | mills | mill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 drive | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 one | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 one | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 water | det |
| 22 | churning | churn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 water | amod |
| 23 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 one | nsubj |
| 24 | below | below | ADP | _ | 26 weir | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 weir | det |
| 26 | weir | weir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 water | nmod |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 one | cop |
| 28 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 tamed | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 places | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 places | det |
| 31 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 32 dangerous | advmod |
| 32 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 places | amod |
| 33 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 one | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 swim | mark |
| 35 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 places | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tamed | 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 | tame | past · passive | Rivers | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | keep | present | weirs | the water | deep property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | |||
| 3 | drive | present | weirs not said here | water mills | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme mill=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | churn | gerund | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | the churning water below a weir | one | of the dangerous places | tree rules | |||
| 6 | swim | to-infinitive | the churning water below a weir not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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