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title: The Volga, about 3,500 km long, is the longest river in Europe, and… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: The Volga, about 3,500 km long, is the longest river in Europe, and it flows into the Caspian Sea, not into an ocean. Who acts: Volga. A sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The great rivers, sentence 12

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The Volga, about 3,500 km long, is the longest river in Europe, and it flows into the Caspian Sea, not into an ocean.

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**Who acts:** Volga · **What happens:** be, flow · **To what, where:** longest river, Europe, Caspian Sea

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography 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 (Volga), 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:12
# text = The Volga, about 3,500 km long, is the longest river in Europe, and it flows into the Caspian Sea, not into an ocean.
# 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 ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Volga	Volga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	about	about	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	3,500	3500	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	km	km	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:nmod:unmarked|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:amod
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	longest	long	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Europe	Europe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
19	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Caspian	Caspian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Volga | the longest river |  | Europe |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **flow** | present | Volga |  |  | the Caspian Sea |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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:geography:016-the-great-rivers.lesson:12`.

**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 ×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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