China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 0

The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia, about 6,300 kilometres, with hundreds of millions of people along it and huge ships going up and down.

Who acts: Yangtze, huge ships · What happens: be, go up · To what, where: longest river, Asia

This is a sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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 (Yangtze, huge ships), 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 Yangtze	det
2	Yangtze	Yangtze	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	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 river	amod
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 Asia	case
8	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 river	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 kilometres	punct
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 6,300	advmod
11	6,300	6,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 kilometres	nummod
12	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 river	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 river	punct
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 hundreds	case
15	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 river	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 millions	case
17	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hundreds	nmod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 people	case
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 millions	nmod
20	along	along	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 people	nmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 ships	cc
23	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 ships	amod
24	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 hundreds	conj
25	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 ships	acl
26	up	up	ADV	_	25 going	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 down	cc
28	down	down	ADV	_	26 up	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 river	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Yangtze	the longest river		Asia		with hundreds of millions of people along river and huge ships; 6,300 kilometres obl:unmarked	tree rules
2	go up	gerund	huge ships not said here						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.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): R1-cc-next ×2, 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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