--- title: Rivers made history: Egypt grew on the Nile's yearly floods, China o… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: Rivers made history: Egypt grew on the Nile's yearly floods, China on the Yellow River and the Yangtze, and in Europa Universalis 5 the Danube is a frontier between the Habsburgs, Hungary and the Ottomans, while Rhine cities like Cologne grow rich from tolls. 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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 (Rivers, Egypt, Danube, Rhine cities), 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:2 # text = Rivers made history: Egypt grew on the Nile's yearly floods, China on the Yellow River and the Yangtze, and in Europa Universalis 5 the Danube is a frontier between the Habsburgs, Hungary and the Ottomans, while Rhine cities like Cologne grow rich from tolls. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 history history NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 : : PUNCT : _ 6 punct _ _ 5 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 6 grew grow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 7 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nmod:poss _ _ 10 's 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 yearly yearly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 China China PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 appos _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 conj _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 Europa Europa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Universalis Universalis PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 27 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 flat _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 Danube Danube PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 cop _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 frontier frontier NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 33 between between ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 Habsburgs Habsburg PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 32 nmod _ _ 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 Hungary Hungary PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Ottomans Ottoman PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ _ 42 while while SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 43 Rhine Rhine PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 cities city NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nsubj _ _ 45 like like ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 46 Cologne Cologne PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod _ _ 47 grow grow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 48 rich rich ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 xcomp _ _ 49 from from ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 tolls toll NOUN NNS Number=Plur 48 obl _ _ 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Rivers | history | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset history=Product | | 2 | **grow** | past | Egypt | | | the Nile's yearly floods | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on flood=Location | | 3 | **is a** | present | the Danube | a frontier | | Europa Universalis | | between the Habsburgs and Hungary and the Ottomans | tree rules | | 4 | **grow** | present | Rhine cities like Cologne | | | | | rich *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **flood** | | the Nile | | | | | | nom flood «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent | 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:2`. **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): 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The great rivers, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/1/) - next →: [The great rivers, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/)