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title: The Congo River has more than seven hundred kinds of fish, many foun… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Congo River has more than seven hundred kinds of fish, many found nowhere else, and new kinds are still described almost every year. Who acts: Congo River, hundred kinds. A sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» of the biology course of 
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# The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 16

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The Congo River has more than seven hundred kinds of fish, many found nowhere else, and new kinds are still described almost every year.

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**Who acts:** Congo River, hundred kinds · **What happens:** have, find, describe · **To what, where:** hundred kinds, many, new kinds

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» 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 (Congo River, hundred kinds), 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:16
# text = The Congo River has more than seven hundred kinds of fish, many found nowhere else, and new kinds are still described almost every year.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	8	advmod	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	5	fixed	_	_
7	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
15	nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
16	else	else	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
24	almost	almost	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the Congo River | hundred kinds of fish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | participle · passive | hundred kinds of fish *not said here* | many |  |  |  | nowhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 3 | **describe** | present · passive |  | new kinds |  |  | still; year |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |

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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.

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**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:16`.

**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): no change. **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/).

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