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title: The Ganges is sacred to Hindus, and together with the Brahmaputra it… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Ganges, Rhine. A sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The great rivers, sentence 15

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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.

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**Who acts:** Ganges, Rhine · **What happens:** be, form · **To what, where:** Hindus, largest river delta, world

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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 (Ganges, Rhine), 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:15
# text = 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.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Ganges	Ganges	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj|HaikuPos=PROPN:NNP:Number=Plur
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Hindus	Hindu	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	together	together	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Brahmaputra	Brahmaputra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	forms	form	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	largest	large	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
17	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	delta	delta	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	appos	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Bangladesh	Bangladesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **is** | present | the Ganges |  | Hindus |  |  | sacred *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **form** | present | Rhine | the largest river delta |  | the world |  | with the Brahmaputra; together *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location delta=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:15`.

**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): 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/).

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