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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 (weirs, churning water), 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:5 # text = Rivers were tamed too: weirs keep the water deep enough for boats and drive water-mills, but the churning water below a weir is one of the most dangerous places to swim. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 tamed tame VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 too too ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 6 weirs weir NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 keep keep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 xcomp _ _ 11 enough enough ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 for for ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 boats boat NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 drive drive VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 16 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ _ 18 mills mill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obj _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 20 but but CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 churning churn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 amod _ _ 23 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 24 below below ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 weir weir NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ _ 28 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 conj _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 32 advmod _ _ 32 dangerous dangerous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nmod _ _ 34 to to PART TO _ 35 mark _ _ 35 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 acl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: narrate - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tame** | past · passive | | Rivers | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 2 | **keep** | present | weirs | the water | | | | deep *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **drive** | present | weirs *not said here* | water mills | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme mill=Trajectory | | 4 | **churn** | gerund | | | | | | | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **is a** | present | the churning water below a weir | one | | | | of the dangerous places | tree rules | | 6 | **swim** | to-infinitive | the churning water below a weir *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:technology:041-rivers-canals-and-boats-locks-weirs-water-mills-barges-and-how-not-to-tip-a-rowing-boat.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): 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. 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