--- title: The Okavango river floods a desert in the middle of the dry season,… — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hipp… · tree and pragmatics description: The Okavango river floods a desert in the middle of the dry season, because rain from far away takes months to flow down to the delta, and the flood feeds elephants, lions and birds. Who acts: Okavango river, rain, flood. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Okavango river, rain, flood), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:13 # text = The Okavango river floods a desert in the middle of the dry season, because rain from far away takes months to flow down to the delta, and the flood feeds elephants, lions and birds. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Okavango Okavango PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 floods flood VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod 10 of of ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 16 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 17 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 19 away away ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 20 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 21 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 flow flow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 24 down down ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=23:compound:prt|HaikuPos=ADP:RP:_ 25 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 delta delta NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 32 feeds feed VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 33 elephants elephant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obj _ _ 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 lions lion NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 conj _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **flood** | present | the Okavango river | a desert | | the middle of the dry season | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent desert=Patient | | 2 | **take** | present | rain | | | | month | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from far=Initial\_Location | | 3 | **flow down** | to-infinitive | rain *not said here* | | | | | to the delta; down *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **feed** | present | the flood | | elephants and lions and birds | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Recipient | 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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:13`. **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, R7-rel-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. 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