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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 (Yangtze, huge ships), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:0 # text = The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia, about 6,300 kilometres, with hundreds of millions of people along it and huge ships going up and down. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.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): R1-cc-next ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 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 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 about about ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 6,300 6,300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 14 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod _ _ 20 along along ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nmod _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=15:cc 23 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 ships ship NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 conj _ _ 25 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 24 acl _ _ 26 up up ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=26:cc 28 down down ADV RB _ 26 conj _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 Yangtze | the longest river | | Asia | | with hundreds of millions of people along river and huge ships; 6,300 kilometres *obl:unmarked* | tree rules | | 2 | **go up** | gerund | huge ships *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | 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. 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