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title: River floods are among the deadliest natural disasters, especially o… — Rivers shaping the land · tree and pragmatics
description: River floods are among the deadliest natural disasters, especially on big rivers like the Yellow River in China. Who acts: River floods. 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 17

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River floods are among the deadliest natural disasters, especially on big rivers like the Yellow River in China.

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**Who acts:** River floods · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** big rivers

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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 floods), 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:17
# text = River floods are among the deadliest natural disasters, especially on big rivers like the Yellow River in China.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	River	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:compound|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Sing
2	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
7	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	disasters	disaster	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Yellow	yellow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	.	.	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 | **is** | present | River floods |  |  | big rivers like the Yellow River in China |  | among the deadliest natural disasters | tree rules |

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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:17`.

**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, R8-pos-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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