Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped, sentence 13
A delta is flat land built from the mud and sand a river drops where it slows down at its mouth.
Who acts: delta, river · What happens: be, build, drop, slow down · To what, where: flat land, mud, mouth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» of the world 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 (delta, river), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 delta | det |
| 2 | delta | delta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 land | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 land | cop |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 land | amod |
| 5 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 land | acl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 mud | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mud | det |
| 9 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 built | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 sand | cc |
| 11 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mud | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drops | nsubj |
| 14 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 mud | acl:relcl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 slows | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 slows | nsubj |
| 17 | slows | slow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 drops | advcl |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 slows | compound:prt |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 slows | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 land | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a delta | flat land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | build | participle | flat land not said here | the mud and sand | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from mud=Material | ||||
| 3 | drop | present | a river | the mud and sand not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mud=Theme | ||||
| 4 | slow down | present | river | river's mouth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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:world:043-landforms.lesson:13.
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, 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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