Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 9
A meander is a loop or bend in a river in its lower course.
Who acts: meander · What happens: be · To what, where: loop, 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 (meander), 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 meander | det |
| 2 | meander | meander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loop | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 loop | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 loop | det |
| 5 | loop | loop | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 bend | cc |
| 7 | bend | bend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loop | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loop | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 course | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 course | nmod:poss |
| 13 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 course | amod |
| 14 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 loop | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 loop | 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 meander | a loop or bend | a river | in river's lower course | tree rules |
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:9.
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. 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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