--- title: Where it pours over a band of hard rock lying on soft rock, the soft… — Rivers shaping the land · tree and pragmatics description: Where it pours over a band of hard rock lying on soft rock, the soft rock wears back faster and a waterfall forms. Who acts: river, hard rock, soft rock, waterfall. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (river, hard rock, soft rock, waterfall), 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:3 # text = Where it pours over a band of hard rock lying on soft rock, the soft rock wears back faster and a waterfall forms. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1 1 Where where ADV WRB PronType=Int 3 advmod _ _ 2 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 pours pour VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 4 over over ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 band band NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 hard hard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 acl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 12 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 18 wears wear VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 back back ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 faster fast ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 18 advmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 waterfall waterfall NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 24 forms form VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=1:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pour** | present | river | | | a band of hard rock | | | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over band=Location | | 2 | **lie** | gerund | hard rock *not said here* | | | soft rock | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | | 3 | **wear** | present | the soft rock | | | | | fast *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **form** | present | a waterfall | | | | | | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:geography:053-rivers-shaping-the-land.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): R6-punct-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/). - ← previous: [Rivers shaping the land, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/2/) - next →: [Rivers shaping the land, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/)