--- title: The great rivers — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The great rivers», a lesson of the geography course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A great river collects rain from a huge area, called its basin, through thousands of smaller streams called tributaries, and carries it all to the sea --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / The great rivers # The great rivers Lesson 16 of the geography course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/16-the-great-rivers/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/0/) — A great river collects rain from a huge area, called its basin, through thousands of smaller streams called tributaries, and carries it all to the sea or to a lake. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/1/) — Which river is the longest is still argued about: the Nile, about 6,650 km, is usually named first, but some measurements make the Amazon a little longer, because nobody agrees exactly where a river begins and ends. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/2/) — Rivers made history: Egypt grew on the Nile's yearly floods, China on the Yellow River and the Yangtze, and in Europa Universalis 5 the Danube is a frontier between the Habsburgs, Hungary and the Ottomans, while Rhine cities like Cologne grow rich from tolls. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/3/) — The game makes rivers mostly lines that slow armies down, but real rivers also bring water, rich silt for farms, fish, power and roads for boats. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/4/) — Think of pouring a bucket of water on a sandpit: little channels join into bigger ones and run downhill to one place. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/5/) — A river basin works the same way, only the size of a country. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/6/) — The Nile, about 6,650 km, is usually called the world's longest river, but some measurements make the Amazon, about 6,400 km or more, a little longer. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/7/) — The Amazon flows through rainforest, where heavy rain falls nearly all year, and carries about a fifth of all the river water that flows into the world's oceans, more than the next several largest rivers together. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/8/) — The White Nile and the Blue Nile meet at Khartoum in Sudan, and the Blue Nile from Ethiopia brings most of the water and the rich silt that once flooded Egypt every year. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/9/) — The Aswan High Dam, finished in 1970, stopped the Nile's yearly flood, giving steady water and electricity but holding back the silt. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/10/) — The Yangtze is the longest river in Asia, about 6,300 km, and the Three Gorges Dam on it is the largest power station in the world by capacity. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/11/) — The Mississippi and its tributaries, such as the Missouri and the Ohio, drain about two-fifths of the 48 neighbouring US states and together form a system about 6,000 km long. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/12/) — The Volga, about 3,500 km long, is the longest river in Europe, and it flows into the Caspian Sea, not into an ocean. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/13/) — The Danube flows through or along the borders of 10 countries, more than any other river, and through four capitals: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/14/) — The Rhine flows from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea, and Rotterdam, near its mouth, is the largest port in Europe. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/15/) — The Ganges is sacred to Hindus, and together with the Brahmaputra it forms the largest river delta in the world, most of it in Bangladesh. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/16/) — China's Yellow River is named after the yellow-brown loess silt it carries, and that silt builds up in its bed, raising the river so it has changed its course many times, causing some of the deadliest floods in history. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/17/) — The Congo River is the deepest river in the world, more than 220 metres deep in places, and it carries the second most water of any river. - ← previous: [The Arctic and Antarctica](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/15-the-arctic-and-antarctica/) - next →: [Mountains and highlands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/) - ↑ back to [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/)