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title: The Danube flows through or along the borders of 10 countries, more… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Danube. A sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and 
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# The great rivers, sentence 13

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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.

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**Who acts:** Danube · **What happens:** flow · **To what, where:** borders

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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 (Danube), 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:13
# text = 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.
# 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 ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Danube	Danube	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	4	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:case
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	10	10	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	conj	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	capitals	capital	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Vienna	Vienna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	Bratislava	Bratislava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Budapest	Budapest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	Belgrade	Belgrade	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **flow** | present | the Danube |  |  | the borders of 10 countries |  | through four capitals | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through border=Location |

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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:13`.

**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 ×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/).

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