The great rivers, sentence 6
The Nile, about 6,650 km, is usually called the world's longest river, but some measurements make the Amazon, about 6,400 km or more, a little longer.
Who acts: measurements · What happens: call, make · 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 (measurements), 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 Nile | det |
| 2 | Nile | Nile | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 6,650 | punct |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 5 6,650 | advmod |
| 5 | 6,650 | 6,650 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 km | nummod |
| 6 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Nile | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Nile | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | aux:pass |
| 9 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 10 called | advmod |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 river | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 world | case |
| 14 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 river | amod |
| 15 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 make | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 make | cc |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 measurements | det |
| 19 | measurements | measurement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 make | nsubj |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 called | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Amazon | det |
| 22 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 make | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Amazon | punct |
| 24 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 6,400 | advmod |
| 25 | 6,400 | 6,400 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 km | nummod |
| 26 | km | km | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Amazon | appos |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 more | cc |
| 28 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 km | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Amazon | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 little | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 longer | obl |
| 32 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 make | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present · passive | the Nile | usually property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | make | present | some measurements | the Amazon | long property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amazon=Product |
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:6.
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 ×3, 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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