The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 0

The Congo is the deepest river known: in places it plunges more than two hundred metres, deeper than a tall tower, cut by fast water over a very long time.

Who acts: Congo · What happens: be, know, plunge, cut · To what, where: deepest river, hundred metres

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» of the biology 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 (Congo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Congo	det
2	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 river	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 river	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 river	det
5	deepest	deep	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 river	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 river	acl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 deeper	punct
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 places	case
10	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 plunges	obl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 plunges	nsubj
12	plunges	plunge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 river	parataxis
13	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV	16 hundred	advmod
14	than	than	ADP	_	13 more	fixed
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 hundred	compound
16	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 metres	nummod
17	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 plunges	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 deeper	punct
19	deeper	deep	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 river	parataxis
20	than	than	ADP	_	23 tower	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 tower	det
22	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 tower	amod
23	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 deeper	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 cut	punct
25	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 deeper	advcl
26	by	by	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 water	amod
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obl
29	over	over	ADP	_	33 time	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 time	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 long	advmod
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 time	amod
33	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 river	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Congo	the deepest river			tree rules
2	know	participle		the deepest river not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	plunge	present	Congo	hundred metres		in places	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient metre=Extent in place=Attribute
4	cut	participle	the Congo not said here		time	by fast water	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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, 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:biology:160-the-congo-river.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): R5-strong ×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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