--- title: The River Severn is the UK's longest river at about 354 km, flowing… — The British Isles and the United Kingdom · tree and pragmatics description: The River Severn is the UK's longest river at about 354 km, flowing from Wales to the Bristol Channel, and the Thames, about 346 km long, flows through London to the North Sea. Who acts: River Severn, 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 (River Severn, Thames), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:12 # text = The River Severn is the UK's longest river at about 354 km, flowing from Wales to the Bristol Channel, and the Thames, about 346 km long, flows through London to the North Sea. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 River River PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 Severn Severn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 UK UK PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nmod:poss _ _ 7 's 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 354 354 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 flowing flow VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:acl 16 from from ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 Wales Wales PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 18 to to ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 Bristol Bristol PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 Channel Channel PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Thames Thames PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=28:punct 27 about about ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 346 346 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 29 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=25:appos 29 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=28:nmod:unmarked 30 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 31 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 32 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 33 through through ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 London London PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 North North PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Sea Sea PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 39 . . PUNCT . _ 9 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 River Severn | the UK's longest river | | 354 km | | | tree rules | | 2 | **flow** | gerund | the River Severn *not said here* | | | Wales | | to the Bristol Channel | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **flow** | present | the Thames | | | London | | to the North Sea | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through london=Location | 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:008-the-british-isles-and-the-united-kingdom.lesson:12`. **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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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. 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