--- title: The Thames is about 346 km long; it rises in the Cotswold hills near… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics description: The Thames is about 346 km long; it rises in the Cotswold hills near Kemble, flows through Oxford, Reading and Windsor, and reaches the North Sea through London and a wide estuary. Who acts: Thames. 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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 (Thames), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:5 # text = The Thames is about 346 km long; it rises in the Cotswold hills near Kemble, flows through Oxford, Reading and Windsor, and reaches the North Sea through London and a wide estuary. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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 ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Thames Thames PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 346 346 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=13:det 13 Cotswold cotswold PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 14 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 near near ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 Kemble Kemble PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 19 through through ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 Oxford Oxford PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Reading Reading PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 Windsor Windsor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 reaches reach VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 29 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 31 through through ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:nmod 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 wide wide ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 estuary estuary NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=30:conj 37 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | the Thames | | | | | 346 km *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **rise** | present | Thames | the Thames *not said here* | | the Cotswold hills | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thames=Theme | | 3 | **flow** | present | Thames *not said here* | | | Oxford and Reading and Windsor | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through oxford=Location | | 4 | **reach** | present | the Thames *not said here* | the North Sea | | London and a wide estuary | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | 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:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:5`. **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 ×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. 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