--- title: A great river collects rain from a huge area, called its basin, thro… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: A great river collects rain from a huge area, called its basin, through thousands of smaller streams called tributaries, and carries it all to the sea or to a lake. Who acts: great river, huge area, smaller streams. 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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 (great river, huge area, smaller streams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:0 # text = A great river collects rain from a huge area, called its basin, through thousands of smaller streams called tributaries, and carries it all to the sea or to a lake. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 016-the-great-rivers.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 collects collect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 area area NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ _ 12 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 basin basin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 smaller small ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nmod _ _ 20 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl _ _ 21 tributaries tributary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 xcomp _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 25 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 obj _ _ 26 all all ADV RB PronType=Tot 24 advmod _ _ 27 to to ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 or or CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 31 to to ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 lake lake NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 4 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 | **collect** | present | a great river | rain | | a huge area | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rain=Theme from area=Source | | 2 | **call** | participle | a huge area *not said here* | river's basin | | thousands of smaller streams | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent basin=Recipient | | 3 | **call** | participle | smaller streams *not said here* | tributaries | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **carry** | present | a great river *not said here* | basin | | the sea or a lake | | all *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to sea=Destination | 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:geography:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:0`. **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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Arctic and Antarctica, 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/18/) - next →: [The great rivers, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/)