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title: Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels joi… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels join into bigger ones and run downhill to one place. Who acts: you, little channels. 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 clau
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# The great rivers, sentence 4

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Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels join into bigger ones and run downhill to one place.

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**Who acts:** you, little channels · **What happens:** think, pour, join, run · **To what, where:** bucket, sandpit

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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 (you, little channels), 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:4
# text = Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels join into bigger ones and run downhill to one place.
# 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	Think	think	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
3	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	advcl	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bucket	bucket	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sandpit	sandpit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	channels	channel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	join	join	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	bigger	big	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	run	run	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:conj
20	downhill	downhill	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **think** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **pour** | gerund | you *not said here* | a bucket of water |  | a sandpit |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucket=Patient |
| 3 | **join** | present | little channels |  |  |  |  | into bigger ones | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient into one=Co-Patient |
| 4 | **run** | infinitive | little channels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to one place *result*; downhill *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to place=Result |

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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:4`.

**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/).

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