--- title: The Amazon flows through rainforest, where heavy rain falls nearly a… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: The Amazon flows through rainforest, where heavy rain falls nearly all year, and carries about a fifth of all the river water that flows into the world's oceans, more than the next several largest rivers together. Who acts: Amazon, heavy rain, river water. A sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» --- [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/7/) [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/) / 7 # The great rivers, sentence 7 The Amazon flows through rainforest, where heavy rain falls nearly all year, and carries about a fifth of all the river water that flows into the world's oceans, more than the next several largest rivers together. **Who acts:** Amazon, heavy rain, river water · **What happens:** flow, fall, carry · **To what, where:** rainforest, fifth, oceans 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 (Amazon, heavy rain, river water), 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:7 # text = The Amazon flows through rainforest, where heavy rain falls nearly all year, and carries about a fifth of all the river water that flows into the world's oceans, more than the next several largest rivers together. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Amazon Amazon 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 through through ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 rainforest rainforest NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 7 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 10 advmod _ _ 8 heavy heavy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 falls fall VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:conj 11 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 17 about about ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 fifth fifth NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 21 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 25 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 nsubj _ _ 26 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 acl:relcl _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ _ 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 oceans ocean NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 advmod _ _ 34 than than ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 36 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 37 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 38 largest large ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 amod _ _ 39 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 obl _ _ 40 together together ADV RB _ 39 advmod _ _ 41 . . 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 Amazon | | | rainforest | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through rainforest=Location | | 2 | **fall** | present | heavy rain | | | | year | nearly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **carry** | present | the Amazon *not said here* | a fifth of all river water | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fifth=Theme | | 4 | **flow** | present | all river water | | | the world's oceans | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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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