The great rivers, sentence 1
Which river is the longest is still argued about: the Nile, about 6,650 km, is usually named first, but some measurements make the Amazon a little longer, because nobody agrees exactly where a river begins and ends.
Who acts: river, measurements, nobody · What happens: be, argue, name, make, agree, begin · To what, where: Nile, Amazon · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography 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 (river, measurements, nobody), 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 longest | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 longest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 longest | det |
| 5 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 argued | csubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 argued | aux:pass |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 argued | advmod |
| 8 | argued | argue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 Nile | case |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 about | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Nile | det |
| 12 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 named | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 6,650 | punct |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 6,650 | advmod |
| 15 | 6,650 | 6,650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 16 km | nummod |
| 16 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Nile | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 named | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 named | aux:pass |
| 19 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 20 named | advmod |
| 20 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 argued | parataxis |
| 21 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 named | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 make | cc |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 measurements | det |
| 25 | measurements | measurement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 make | nsubj |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 argued | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Amazon | det |
| 28 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 little | det |
| 30 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 longer | obl |
| 31 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 make | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 agrees | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 35 agrees | mark |
| 34 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 35 agrees | nsubj |
| 35 | agrees | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | advcl |
| 36 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 40 begins | advmod |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 begins | advmod |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 river | det |
| 39 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 begins | nsubj |
| 40 | begins | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 agrees | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 ends | cc |
| 42 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 begins | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 argued | 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 | which river | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | argue speech: disagree | present · passive | still | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 3 | name | present · passive | the Nile | first, usually property | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | present | some measurements | the Amazon | long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amazon=Product | |||
| 5 | agree speech: agree | present | nobody | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | begin | present | a river | exactly property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | end | present | a river not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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:geography:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:1.
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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, 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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