--- title: The Nile, about 6,650 km, is usually called the world's longest rive… — The great rivers · tree and pragmatics description: The Nile, about 6,650 km, is usually called the world's longest river, but some measurements make the Amazon, about 6,400 km or more, a little longer. Who acts: measurements. 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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 (measurements), 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:6 # text = The Nile, about 6,650 km, is usually called the world's longest river, but some measurements make the Amazon, about 6,400 km or more, a little longer. # 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 ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 about about ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 6,650 6,650 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:appos 6 km km NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:nmod:unmarked 7 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux:pass _ _ 9 usually usually ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ _ 13 's 's PART POS _ 12 case _ _ 14 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 15 amod _ _ 15 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:obj 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 measurements measurement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=10:parataxis 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:advmod 25 6,400 6,400 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 km km NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 appos _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:appos|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 26 conj _ _ 29 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=32:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos 32 longer long ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | present · passive | | the Nile | | | | usually *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **make** | present | some measurements | the Amazon | | | | long *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset amazon=Product | 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:6`. **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 ×3, 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, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/5/) - next →: [The great rivers, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/7/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/16-the-great-rivers/)