--- title: Which river is the longest is still argued about: the Nile, about 6,… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: river, measurements, nobody. 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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 (river, measurements, nobody), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:1 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 016-the-great-rivers.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Which which DET WDT PronType=Int 2 det _ _ 2 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 csubj:pass _ _ 6 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 7 still still ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 argued argue VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 9 about about ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 nsubj:pass _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:obl 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 about about ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 6,650 6,650 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:appos 16 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:nmod:unmarked 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 19 usually usually ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 21 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 advmod _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 but but CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 25 measurements measurement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 nsubj _ _ 26 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:advcl 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=26:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=31:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 31 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 xcomp _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 because because SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 34 nobody nobody PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 35 nsubj _ _ 35 agrees agree VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:conj 36 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 40 advmod _ _ 37 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 40 advmod _ _ 38 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 begins begin VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 ends end VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 43 . . PUNCT . _ 8 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 | which river | | | | | long *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present · passive | | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V» | | 3 | **name** | present · passive | | the Nile | | | | first, usually *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **make** | present | some measurements | the Amazon | | | | long *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amazon=Product | | 5 | **agree** *speech: agree* | present | nobody | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **begin** | present | a river | | | | | exactly *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 7 | **end** | present | a river *not said here* | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | 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. Sentence `school:geography:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:1`. **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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×4, R8-pos-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/). - ← previous: [The great rivers, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/0/) - next →: [The great rivers, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/)