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title: In its lower course, a river winds in big loops called meanders. — Rivers shaping the land · tree and pragmatics
description: In its lower course, a river winds in big loops called meanders. Who acts: river, big loops. A sentence of the lesson «Rivers shaping the land» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Rivers shaping the land, sentence 11

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In its lower course, a river winds in big loops called meanders.

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**Who acts:** river, big loops · **What happens:** wind, call · **To what, where:** lower course, meanders · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers shaping the land» 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 (river, big loops), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:053-rivers-shaping-the-land.lesson:11
# text = In its lower course, a river winds in big loops called meanders.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 053-rivers-shaping-the-land.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	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	lower	low	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	loops	loop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	meanders	meander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	xcomp	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obj
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **wind** | present | a river |  |  | river's lower course |  | in big loops | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in course=Source in loop=Trajectory |
| 2 | **call** | participle | big loops *not said here* | meanders |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:053-rivers-shaping-the-land.lesson:11`.

**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/).

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