--- title: The Rhine flows from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, and Rotterdam,… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: The Rhine flows from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, and Rotterdam, near its mouth, is the largest port in Europe. Who acts: Rhine, Rotterdam. A sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The great rivers](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/) / 14 # The great rivers, sentence 14 The Rhine flows from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, and Rotterdam, near its mouth, is the largest port in Europe. **Who acts:** Rhine, Rotterdam · **What happens:** flow, be · **To what, where:** Swiss Alps, largest port, Europe This is a sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography 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 (Rhine, Rotterdam), 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:14 # text = The Rhine flows from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, and Rotterdam, near its mouth, is the largest port in Europe. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Rhine Rhine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 Swiss Swiss ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 Alps alp PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 3 obl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:obl|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 8 to to ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:nmod 12 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 14 Rotterdam Rotterdam PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct 16 near near ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 23 amod _ _ 23 port port NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Europe Europe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 . . 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 | **flow** | present | the Rhine | | | the Swiss Alps | | to the North Sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | present | Rotterdam near Rhine's mouth | the largest port | | Europe | | | 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](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: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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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 great rivers, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/13/) - next →: [The great rivers, 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/15/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/)