--- title: After heavy rain, water rushing off the land makes rivers faster, hi… — Rivers, lakes and ponds · tree and pragmatics description: After heavy rain, water rushing off the land makes rivers faster, higher and brown with soil, and the Amazon carries more water than the next several biggest rivers put together. Who acts: water, Amazon, next several biggest rivers. A sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and ponds» of the biology c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/14/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Rivers, lakes and ponds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/) / 14 # Rivers, lakes and ponds, sentence 14 After heavy rain, water rushing off the land makes rivers faster, higher and brown with soil, and the Amazon carries more water than the next several biggest rivers put together. **Who acts:** water, Amazon, next several biggest rivers · **What happens:** rush off, make, carry, put together · **To what, where:** land, rivers, more water This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and ponds» of the biology 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 (water, Amazon, next several biggest rivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson:14 # text = After heavy rain, water rushing off the land makes rivers faster, higher and brown with soil, and the Amazon carries more water than the next several biggest rivers put together. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 After after ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 6 rushing rush VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 off off ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 10 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 faster fast ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 higher high ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 12 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 conj _ _ 17 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 soil soil NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=23:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 23 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 24 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 25 amod _ _ 25 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 than than SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 28 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 29 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 30 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 31 amod _ _ 31 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 nsubj _ _ 32 put put VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 33 together together ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rush off** | gerund | water *not said here* | the land | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Trajectory | | 2 | **make** | present | water | rivers | | | after heavy rain | fast *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset river=Product | | 3 | **carry** | present | the Amazon | more water | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 4 | **put together** | past | the next several biggest rivers | | | | | together *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson:14`. **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): R8-pos-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Rivers, lakes and ponds, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/13/) - next →: [Rivers, lakes and ponds, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/10-rivers-lakes-and-ponds/)