Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 11
The Nile and the Amazon are the longest rivers in the world, and the Amazon carries by far the most water.
Who acts: Nile, Amazon · What happens: be, carry · To what, where: longest rivers, world, most water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» of the world 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 (Nile, Amazon), 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 | 9 rivers | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Amazon | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Amazon | det |
| 5 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Nile | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rivers | cop |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rivers | det |
| 8 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 rivers | amod |
| 9 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rivers | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carries | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 carries | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Amazon | det |
| 16 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 carries | nsubj |
| 17 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rivers | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 water | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carries | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rivers | 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 Nile and the Amazon | the longest rivers | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | present | the Amazon | the most water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
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:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:11.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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