--- title: They crowd into river valleys, coastal plains and fertile lowlands,… — Population and cities · tree and pragmatics description: They crowd into river valleys, coastal plains and fertile lowlands, and leave deserts, high mountains and icy lands nearly empty; look at Egypt, where almost everyone lives in the thin green strip along the Nile. Who acts: people, everyone. A sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» of the geo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/3/) [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/) / [Population and cities](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/) / 3 # Population and cities, sentence 3 They crowd into river valleys, coastal plains and fertile lowlands, and leave deserts, high mountains and icy lands nearly empty; look at Egypt, where almost everyone lives in the thin green strip along the Nile. **Who acts:** people, everyone · **What happens:** crowd, leave, look, live · **To what, where:** river valleys, deserts, thin green strip This is a sentence of the lesson «Population and cities» 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 (people, everyone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:024-population-and-cities.lesson:3 # text = They crowd into river valleys, coastal plains and fertile lowlands, and leave deserts, high mountains and icy lands nearly empty; look at Egypt, where almost everyone lives in the thin green strip along the Nile. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 024-population-and-cities.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 ×2 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 crowd crowd VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 into into ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 valleys valley NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 coastal coastal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 plains plain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 9 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=5:cc 10 fertile fertile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 lowlands lowland NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 conj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=2:cc 14 leave leave VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 15 deserts desert NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 17 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 20 icy icy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 lands land NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 22 nearly nearly ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 empty empty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 xcomp _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 look look VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 26 at at ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 Egypt Egypt PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 32 advmod _ _ 30 almost almost ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 everyone everyone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Tot 32 nsubj _ _ 32 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 35 thin thin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 strip strip NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 38 along along ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed act=assert | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **crowd** | present | people | | | river valleys and coastal plains and fertile lowlands | | | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into valley=Destination | | 2 | **leave** | present | people *not said here* | deserts and high mountains and icy lands | | | | empty *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desert=Theme | | 3 | **look** | infinitive | | | | | | at Egypt | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at egypt=Theme | | 4 | **live** | present | everyone | | | the thin green strip along the Nile | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in strip=Location | 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:024-population-and-cities.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 ×2. **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: [Population and cities, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/2/) - next →: [Population and cities, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/24-population-and-cities/)