China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 8

The Yangtze is about 6,300 kilometres long, the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world, and hundreds of millions of people live along it.

Who acts: Yangtze, hundreds · What happens: be, live · To what, where: river

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, hundreds), 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	7 long	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	cop
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 6,300	advmod
5	6,300	6,300	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	6 kilometres	nummod
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 long	obl:unmarked
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
10	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 river	amod
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 long	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 Asia	case
13	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 river	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 longest	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 longest	det
16	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 longest	amod
17	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 river	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 world	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 longest	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 live	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 live	cc
23	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 live	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 millions	case
25	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hundreds	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 people	case
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 millions	nmod
28	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 long	conj
29	along	along	ADP	_	30 it	case
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 live	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 long	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the Yangtze					6,300 kilometres obl:unmarked; long property	tree rules
2	live	present	hundreds of millions of people			river			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along it=Location

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:8.

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, 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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