--- title: A river collects water from all the land that slopes towards it, cal… — Rivers, lakes and the sea up close · tree and pragmatics description: A river collects water from all the land that slopes towards it, called its drainage basin; small streams called tributaries join it on the way, so it grows bigger as it flows downhill. Who acts: river, land, small streams. 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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, land, small streams), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:0 # text = A river collects water from all the land that slopes towards it, called its drainage basin; small streams called tributaries join it on the way, so it grows bigger as it flows downhill. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.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 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 collects collect VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 5 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 8 det:predet _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 9 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 nsubj _ _ 10 slopes slope VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 acl:relcl _ _ 11 towards towards ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 15 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 drainage drainage NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 17 basin basin NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 streams stream NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nsubj _ _ 21 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl _ _ 22 tributaries tributary NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 xcomp _ _ 23 join join VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 24 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 on on ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 so so ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 grows grow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 32 bigger big ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 31 xcomp _ _ 33 as as SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 flows flow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 advcl _ _ 36 downhill downhill ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 37 . . 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 | **collect** | present | a river | water | | all land | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from land=Source | | 2 | **slope** | present | all land | | | | | towards river | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **call** | participle | all land *not said here* | river's drainage basin | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent basin=Recipient | | 4 | **call** | participle | small streams *not said here* | tributaries | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **join** | present | small streams | basin | | the way | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 6 | **grow** | present | river | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **flow** | present | river | | | | | downhill *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:0`. **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. **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: [Soil and what lives in it, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/63-soil-and-what-lives-in-it/16/) - next →: [Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/)