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title: The game makes rivers mostly lines that slow armies down, but real r… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: The game makes rivers mostly lines that slow armies down, but real rivers also bring water, rich silt for farms, fish, power and roads for boats. Who acts: game, lines, real rivers. A sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree 
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# The great rivers, sentence 3

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The game makes rivers mostly lines that slow armies down, but real rivers also bring water, rich silt for farms, fish, power and roads for boats.

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**Who acts:** game, lines, real rivers · **What happens:** make, slow down, bring · **To what, where:** rivers, armies, water

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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 (game, lines, real rivers), 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:3
# text = The game makes rivers mostly lines that slow armies down, but real rivers also bring water, rich silt for farms, fish, power and roads for boats.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
5	mostly	mostly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	lines	line	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:xcomp
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	slow	slow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
12	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=3:cc
13	real	real	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=16:obj
15	also	also	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
17	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	silt	silt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	farms	farm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	roads	road	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	boats	boat	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present | the game | rivers |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset river=Product |
| 2 | **slow down** | present | lines | armies |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
| 3 | **bring** | infinitive | real rivers | water and rich silt for farms and fish and power and roads for boats |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme |

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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.

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**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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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/).

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