--- title: Fast boats make waves called wash that wear away river banks, which… — Rivers, canals and boats: locks, weirs, water-mi… · tree and pragmatics description: Fast boats make waves called wash that wear away river banks, which is one reason for the canal speed limit and why the Rat shouted at the steam-launches. Who acts: Fast boats, waves, Rat. 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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 (Fast boats, waves, Rat), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.lesson:19 # text = Fast boats make waves called wash that wear away river banks, which is one reason for the canal speed limit and why the Rat shouted at the steam-launches. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = technology # lesson = 041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2 1 Fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 acl _ _ 6 wash wash NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 xcomp _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 wear wear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:acl:relcl 9 away away ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 10 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 banks bank NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 15 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ _ 16 reason reason NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 acl:relcl _ _ 17 for for ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 canal canal NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 21 limit limit NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=21:cc 23 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 26 advmod _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 shouted shout VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:conj 27 at at ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 29 steam steam NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 compound _ _ 30 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 29 punct _ _ 31 launches launch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | present | Fast boats | waves | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material wave=Product | | 2 | **call** | participle | waves *not said here* | wash | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **wear away** | present | waves | river banks | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bank=Source | | 4 | **is a** | present | | one reason | | | | for the speed limit | tree rules | | 5 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the Rat | | | the steam launches | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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. 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