--- title: Water shapes the land too: a river carries sand and stones that scra… — Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is… · tree and pragmatics description: Water shapes the land too: a river carries sand and stones that scrape its bed, and over thousands of years it cuts a deep valley shaped like the letter V; where it slows down near the sea, it drops its sand and mud and builds a delta. Who acts: Water, river, sand. 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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 (Water, river, sand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:043-landforms.lesson:3 # text = Water shapes the land too: a river carries sand and stones that scrape its bed, and over thousands of years it cuts a deep valley shaped like the letter V; where it slows down near the sea, it drops its sand and mud and builds a delta. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 043-landforms.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 shapes shape VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 too too ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:advmod 6 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 10 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 stones stone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 conj _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 scrape scrape VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:acl:relcl 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 bed bed NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 19 over over ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 thousands thousand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 23 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 cuts cut VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 valley valley NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 acl _ _ 29 like like ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 letter letter NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 V v NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl _ _ 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 36 punct _ _ 34 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 36 advmod _ _ 35 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 slows slow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 37 down down ADP RP _ 36 compound:prt _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=36:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:_ 38 near near ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 drops drop VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 44 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 sand sand NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 46 and and CCONJ CC _ 47 cc _ _ 47 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 builds build VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 43 conj _ _ 50 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 51 delta delta NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obj _ _ 52 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shape** | present | Water | the land | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset land=Product | | 2 | **carry** | present | a river | sand and stones | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme | | 3 | **scrape** | present | sand and stones | river's bed | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Patient | | 4 | **cut** | present | Water | a deep valley | | thousands of years | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material valley=Product | | 5 | **shape** | participle | | a deep valley *not said here* | | | | like the letter V | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 6 | **slow down** | present | Water | | | the sea | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **drop** | present | Water | river's sand and mud | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme | | 8 | **build** | present | Water *not said here* | a delta | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset delta=Product | 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:world:043-landforms.lesson:3`. **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 ×2, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Mountains, rivers and seas, and how th…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/43-landforms/2/) - next →: [Mountains, rivers and seas, and how th…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/43-landforms/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/43-landforms/)