---
title: Lower down the river slows and swings in big loops called meanders,… — Rivers shaping the land · tree and pragmatics
description: Lower down the river slows and swings in big loops called meanders, like a snake. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/4/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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/) / [Rivers shaping the land](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/) / 4

# Rivers shaping the land, sentence 4

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Lower down the river slows and swings in big loops called meanders, like a snake.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** river, big loops · **What happens:** slow, swing, call · **To what, where:** meanders · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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:4
# text = Lower down the river slows and swings in big loops called meanders, like a snake.
# 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): R5-strong ×2
1	Lower	lower	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	down	down	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	slows	slow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	swings	swing	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	loops	loop	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl
12	meanders	meander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	xcomp	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	snake	snake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slow** | present | the river |  |  |  |  | like a snake; down, lower *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **swing** | present | the river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in big loops | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in loop=Attribute |
| 3 | **call** | participle | big loops *not said here* | meanders |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:4`.

**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): R5-strong ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Rivers shaping the land, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/3/)
- next →: [Rivers shaping the land, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/5/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/)