Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts, sentence 6
The sea does not overflow because as much water evaporates from it as rivers pour in.
Who acts: sea, much water, rivers · What happens: not overflow, evaporate, pour in · To what, where: sea
This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» 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 (sea, much water, rivers), 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 sea | det |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 overflow | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 overflow | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 overflow | advmod |
| 5 | overflow | overflow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 evaporates | mark |
| 7 | as | as | ADV | _ | 8 much | advmod |
| 8 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 evaporates | nsubj |
| 10 | evaporates | evaporate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 overflow | advcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 evaporates | obl |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 pour | mark |
| 14 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pour | nsubj |
| 15 | pour | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 evaporates | advcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 pour | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 overflow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not overflow | present · do-support | the sea | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | evaporate | present | much water | sea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | pour in | present | rivers | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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:050-why-the-earth-is-so.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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