Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 7
A tributary is a smaller river or stream that flows into a bigger river.
Who acts: tributary, smaller river · What happens: be, flow · To what, where: smaller river, bigger 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 (tributary, smaller 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 tributary | det |
| 2 | tributary | tributary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 river | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 river | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 5 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 river | amod |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 stream | cc |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 river | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 flows | nsubj |
| 10 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 river | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 river | det |
| 13 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 river | amod |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flows | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 river | 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 tributary | a smaller river or stream | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flow | present | a smaller river or stream | a bigger river | 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:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:7.
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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