--- title: Water even moves across a desert: in Botswana the Okavango river flo… — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hipp… · tree and pragmatics description: Water even moves across a desert: in Botswana the Okavango river floods in the middle of the dry season, because rain that fell far away takes months to arrive. Who acts: Water, Okavango river, rain. 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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 (Water, Okavango river, rain), 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:3 # text = Water even moves across a desert: in Botswana the Okavango river floods in the middle of the dry season, because rain that fell far away takes months to arrive. # 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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Water Water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 even even ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 3 moves move VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 across across ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 desert desert NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 8 in in ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 Botswana Botswana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 appos _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 11 Okavango Okavango PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:compound 12 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:compound 13 floods flood VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 middle middle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 dry dry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 because because SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 23 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 25 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 26 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 27 advmod _ _ 27 away away ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 28 takes take VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 29 months month NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 obj _ _ 30 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 31 arrive arrive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 advcl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **move** | present | Water | | | a desert | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme across desert=Trajectory | | 2 | **flood** | present | the Okavango river | | | the middle of the dry season | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **fall** | past | rain | | | | | away *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **take** | present | rain | | | | month | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **arrive** | to-infinitive | rain *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «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](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:3`. **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 ×2, 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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