--- title: The Yangtze is about 6,300 kilometres long, the longest river in Asi… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: The Yangtze is about 6,300 kilometres long, the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world, and hundreds of millions of people live along it. Who acts: Yangtze, hundreds. 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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, hundreds), 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:8 # text = The Yangtze is about 6,300 kilometres long, the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world, and hundreds of millions of people live along it. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Yangtze Yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 cop _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 6,300 6,300 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 11 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 parataxis _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos 12 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Asia Asia PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 16 third third ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 17 amod _ _ 17 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 conj _ _ 18 in in ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 23 hundreds hundred NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 nsubj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 nmod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ _ 28 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 29 along along ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 obl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 7 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** | present | the Yangtze | | | | | 6,300 kilometres *obl:unmarked*; long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **live** | present | hundreds of millions of people | | | river | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along it=Location | 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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