--- title: Floods spread mud on flat land beside the river, making a fertile fl… — Rivers shaping the land · tree and pragmatics description: Floods spread mud on flat land beside the river, making a fertile flood plain, and at the mouth the river may drop its mud to build a delta. Who acts: Floods, river. 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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 (Floods, river), 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:6 # text = Floods spread mud on flat land beside the river, making a fertile flood plain, and at the mouth the river may drop its mud to build a delta. # 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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Floods flood NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 spread spread VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 7 beside beside ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 making make VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 13 fertile fertile ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 14 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 18 at at ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nsubj _ _ 23 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 drop drop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=11:conj 25 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 advcl _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 delta delta NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **spread** | present | Floods | mud | | flat land beside the river | | | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme on land=Destination | | 2 | **make** | gerund | Floods *not said here* | a fertile flood plain | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plain=Product | | 3 | **drop** | may | the river | river's mud | | the mouth | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent mud=Theme at mouth=Destination | | 4 | **build** | to-infinitive | the river *not said here* | a delta | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset delta=Product | 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:6`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Rivers shaping the land, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/5/) - next →: [Rivers shaping the land, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/53-rivers-shaping-the-land/)