--- title: China's Yellow River is named after the yellow-brown loess silt it c… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: China's Yellow River is named after the yellow-brown loess silt it carries, and that silt builds up in its bed, raising the river so it has changed its course many times, causing some of the deadliest floods in history. Who acts: Rhine, silt. A sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geogra --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # The great rivers, sentence 16 China's Yellow River is named after the yellow-brown loess silt it carries, and that silt builds up in its bed, raising the river so it has changed its course many times, causing some of the deadliest floods in history. **Who acts:** Rhine, silt · **What happens:** name, carry, build up, raise, change, cause · **To what, where:** Yellow River, brown loess silt, bed, river, course, some 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, silt), 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:16 # text = China's Yellow River is named after the yellow-brown loess silt it carries, and that silt builds up in its bed, raising the river so it has changed its course many times, causing some of the deadliest floods in history. # 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 ×2 1 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ _ 2 's 's PART POS _ 1 case _ _ 3 Yellow Yellow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj:pass _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 aux:pass _ _ 6 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 9 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:amod 10 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 9 punct _ _ 11 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 12 loess loess NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 silt silt NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 acl:relcl _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 silt silt NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:conj 21 up up ADP RP _ 20 compound:prt _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 raising raise VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 31 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 32 changed change VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 33 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl:unmarked _ _ 37 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 38 causing cause VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 32 advcl _ _ 39 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 38 obj _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 43 det _ _ 42 deadliest deadly ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 43 amod _ _ 43 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 39 nmod _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ _ 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **name** | present · passive | | China's Yellow River | | | after the brown loess silt | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **carry** | present | Rhine | the brown loess silt *not said here* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent silt=Theme | | 3 | **build up** | present | that silt | | | Rhine's bed | | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **raise** | gerund | that silt *not said here* | the river | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Theme | | 5 | **change** | present · perfect | Rhine | Rhine's course | | | time | | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Patient | | 6 | **cause** | gerund | Rhine *not said here* | some | | | | | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition some=Patient | 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. 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