--- title: The Congo is the deepest river known: in places it plunges more than… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics description: The Congo is the deepest river known: in places it plunges more than two hundred metres, deeper than a tall tower, cut by fast water over a very long time. Who acts: Congo. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Congo), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:160-the-congo-river.lesson:0 # text = The Congo is the deepest river known: in places it plunges more than two hundred metres, deeper than a tall tower, cut by fast water over a very long time. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 160-the-congo-river.lesson # annotation = 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 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Congo Congo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 deepest deep ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 known know VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 places place NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 plunges plunge VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 13 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod 14 than than ADP IN _ 13 fixed _ _ 15 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 16 compound _ _ 16 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 17 nummod _ _ 17 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obj _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 deeper deep ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 parataxis _ _ 20 than than ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 tall tall ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ _ 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 cut cut VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 26 by by ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 over over ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 31 very very ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 32 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 | **is a** | present | the Congo | the deepest river | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **know** | participle | | the deepest river *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **plunge** | present | Congo | hundred metres | | | | in places | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient metre=Extent in place=Attribute | | 4 | **cut** | participle | the Congo *not said here* | | | | time | by fast water | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:160-the-congo-river.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): R5-strong ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobo…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/159-the-congo-rainforest/17/) - next →: [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/)