Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 8
A drainage basin is all the land whose water drains into one river.
Who acts: drainage basin, water · What happens: be, drain · To what, where: land, one 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 (drainage basin, water), 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 | 3 basin | det |
| 2 | drainage | drainage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 basin | compound |
| 3 | basin | basin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 land | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 land | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 land | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 water | nmod:poss |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drains | nsubj |
| 10 | drains | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 land | acl:relcl |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 river | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 river | nummod |
| 13 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drains | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 drainage basin | all land | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drain | present | water | one river | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source 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:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:8.
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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