--- title: The Limpopo is a real river, about 1,750 kilometres long, that forms… — The map of the Just So Stories: from the North A… · tree and pragmatics description: The Limpopo is a real river, about 1,750 kilometres long, that forms the northern border of South Africa with Botswana and Zimbabwe and flows into the Indian Ocean in Mozambique; its banks really are lined with yellow-barked fever trees. Who acts: Limpopo, real 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 (Limpopo, real river), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:9 # text = The Limpopo is a real river, about 1,750 kilometres long, that forms the northern border of South Africa with Botswana and Zimbabwe and flows into the Indian Ocean in Mozambique; its banks really are lined with yellow-barked fever trees. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Limpopo Limpopo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 1,750 1,750 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 nummod _ _ 10 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nmod:unmarked 11 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=10:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 12 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 14 forms form VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 northern northern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 South South PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 Botswana Botswana PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Zimbabwe Zimbabwe PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 26 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 27 into into ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Mozambique Mozambique PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obl _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 really really ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=35:advmod 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 aux:pass _ _ 38 lined line VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 40 yellow yellow ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 compound _ _ 41 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 40 punct _ _ 42 barked bark VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 amod _ _ 43 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 compound _ _ 44 trees tree NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 6 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 | **is a** | present | the Limpopo | a real river | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **form** | present | a real river | the northern border of South Africa | | | | with Botswana and Zimbabwe | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location border=Theme | | 3 | **flow** | present | a real river *not said here* | | | the Indian Ocean | | in Mozambique | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in mozambique=Location | | 4 | **line** | present · passive | | Limpopo's banks | | | | with barked fever trees | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with tree=Theme | | 5 | **bark** | participle | | | | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:9`. **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 ×3, 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. 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