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title: Parts of the Congo River are more than two hundred metres deep, the… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Parts of the Congo River are more than two hundred metres deep, the deepest river known. Who acts: Parts. 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 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 5

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Parts of the Congo River are more than two hundred metres deep, the deepest river known.

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**Who acts:** Parts · **What happens:** be, know · **To what, where:** deepest river

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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 (Parts), 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:5
# text = Parts of the Congo River are more than two hundred metres deep, the deepest river known.
# 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, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	Parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
7	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	10	advmod	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	7	fixed	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
12	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	amod	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	parataxis	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:appos
17	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Parts of the Congo River |  |  |  |  | hundred metres *obl:unmarked*; deep *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  | the deepest river *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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:5`.

**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, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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