Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 10

A floodplain is the flat land beside a river that is covered with water when the river floods.

Who acts: floodplain, river · What happens: be, cover, flood · To what, where: flat land, river

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» 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 (floodplain, 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 floodplain	det
2	floodplain	floodplain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 land	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 land	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 land	det
5	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 land	amod
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	beside	beside	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 land	nmod
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 covered	nsubj:pass
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 covered	aux:pass
12	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 river	acl:relcl
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 water	case
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 covered	obl
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 floods	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 floods	nsubj
18	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 covered	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 land	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a floodplain	the flat land	a river		tree rules
2	cover	present · passive		a river		with water	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with water=Theme
3	flood	present	the river				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:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:10.

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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