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title: Over millions of years the Colorado River cut the Grand Canyon about… — Rivers shaping the land · tree and pragmatics
description: Over millions of years the Colorado River cut the Grand Canyon about 1.8 km deep. Who acts: Colorado River. 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 7

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Over millions of years the Colorado River cut the Grand Canyon about 1.8 km deep.

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**Who acts:** Colorado River · **What happens:** cut · **To what, where:** Grand Canyon, millions

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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 (Colorado 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:7
# text = Over millions of years the Colorado River cut the Grand Canyon about 1.8 km deep.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Over	over	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	millions	million	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Colorado	Colorado	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Grand	Grand	PROPN	NNP	_	11	compound	_	_
11	Canyon	Canyon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	about	about	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_
13	1.8	1.8	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
14	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
15	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
16	.	.	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 | **cut** | past | the Colorado River | the Grand Canyon |  | millions of years |  | deep *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent canyon=Product |

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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:7`.

**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 ×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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