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title: The sea does not overflow because as much water evaporates from it a… — Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains an… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sea does not overflow because as much water evaporates from it as rivers pour in. Who acts: sea, much water, rivers. A sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts, sentence 6

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The sea does not overflow because as much water evaporates from it as rivers pour in.

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**Who acts:** sea, much water, rivers · **What happens:** not overflow, evaporate, pour in · **To what, where:** sea

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Thinking like a geographer: rivers, mountains and deserts» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sea, much water, rivers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:world:050-why-the-earth-is-so.lesson:6
# text = The sea does not overflow because as much water evaporates from it as rivers pour in.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 050-why-the-earth-is-so.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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	overflow	overflow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
7	as	as	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	evaporates	evaporate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	rivers	river	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	pour	pour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **overflow** | present · do-support | the sea |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **evaporate** | present | much water |  |  | sea |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **pour in** | present | rivers |  |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |

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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.

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**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:050-why-the-earth-is-so.lesson:6`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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