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title: The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the biggest power station in… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the biggest power station in the world by power. Who acts: Gorges Dam. A sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree
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# China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 20

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The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the biggest power station in the world by power.

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**Who acts:** Gorges Dam · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** biggest power station, world

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This is a sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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 (Gorges Dam), 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:20
# text = The Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze is the biggest power station in the world by power.
# 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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
3	Gorges	gorge	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur
4	Dam	dam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=12:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Yangtze	yangtze	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
11	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=12:obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 a** | present | the Gorges Dam on the Yangtze | the biggest power station |  | the world |  | by power | tree rules |

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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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:20`.

**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): R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.

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

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