--- title: It turns a narrow V-shaped river valley into a wide U-shaped valley… — Glaciers and ice ages · tree and pragmatics description: It turns a narrow V-shaped river valley into a wide U-shaped valley with a flat floor and steep sides; when the sea floods one, we get a fjord, like the ones in Norway. Who acts: Snow, sea, we. 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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 (Snow, sea, we), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.lesson:3 # text = It turns a narrow V-shaped river valley into a wide U-shaped valley with a flat floor and steep sides; when the sea floods one, we get a fjord, like the ones in Norway. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turns turn VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 4 narrow narrow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 5 V v NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ _ 7 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 10 into into ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 12 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 13 U U PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ _ 15 shaped shaped ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=9:nmod 17 with with ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 18 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 floor floor NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 steep steep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 sides side NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 conj _ _ 24 ; ; PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 25 when when SCONJ WRB _ 28 mark _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 28 floods flood VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 29 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 28 obj _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 get get VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 fjord fjord NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 36 like like ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nmod _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 Norway Norway PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | present | Snow | a narrow shaped river valley | | a wide U shaped valley with a flat floor and steep sides | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent valley=Theme into valley=Trajectory | | 2 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **flood** | present | the sea | one | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 4 | **get** | present | we | a fjord | | | | like the ones in Norway | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fjord=Stimulus | 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:054-glaciers-and-ice-ages.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): R5-strong ×1, 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/). - ← previous: [Glaciers and ice ages, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/2/) - next →: [Glaciers and ice ages, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/54-glaciers-and-ice-ages/)