Map reading puzzles, sentence 13
Rivers always flow from higher land to lower land, so a river flows away from the mountains.
Who acts: Rivers, river · What happens: flow · To what, where: higher land
This is a sentence of the lesson «Map reading puzzles» 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 (Rivers, 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 | Rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 flow | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | _ | 3 flow | advmod |
| 3 | flow | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 land | case |
| 5 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 land | amod |
| 6 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flow | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 land | case |
| 8 | lower | lower | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 land | amod |
| 9 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flow | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 flows | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 flows | advmod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 river | det |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flows | nsubj |
| 14 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 flow | parataxis |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 flows | advmod |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 mountains | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountains | det |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 away | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flow | present | Rivers | higher land | to lower land; always property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | flow | present | a river | away property | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:world:049-map-puzzles.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): R5-strong ×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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