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title: The Congo River is the deepest river in the world, more than 220 met… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: Congo River, Rhine. A sentence of the lesson «The great rivers» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# The great rivers, sentence 17

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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.

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**Who acts:** Congo River, Rhine · **What happens:** be, carry · **To what, where:** deepest river, world, second most water

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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 (Congo River, 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:17
# text = 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.
# 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, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Congo	Congo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	14	advmod	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	12	fixed	_	_
14	220	220	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:appos
16	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:amod
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:acl:relcl
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	26	amod	_	_
25	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=26:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup
26	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	29	det	_	_
29	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	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 Congo River | the deepest river |  | the world |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **carry** | present | Rhine | the second most water of any river |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:17`.

**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, R7-rel-agree ×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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