--- title: The Alps arc across eight countries, and Mont Blanc, on the French-I… — Mountains and highlands · tree and pragmatics description: The Alps arc across eight countries, and Mont Blanc, on the French-Italian border, is their highest peak at about 4,800 metres, its exact height changing slightly with its ice cap. Who acts: Alps, Mont, exact height. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» of the geography course of Mova' --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/11/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [Mountains and highlands](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/) / 11 # Mountains and highlands, sentence 11 The Alps arc across eight countries, and Mont Blanc, on the French-Italian border, is their highest peak at about 4,800 metres, its exact height changing slightly with its ice cap. **Who acts:** Alps, Mont, exact height · **What happens:** arc, be, change · **To what, where:** eight countries, highest peak, 4,800 metres This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» 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 (Alps, Mont, exact height), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:017-mountains-and-highlands.lesson:11 # text = The Alps arc across eight countries, and Mont Blanc, on the French-Italian border, is their highest peak at about 4,800 metres, its exact height changing slightly with its ice cap. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 017-mountains-and-highlands.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Alps alps NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 arc arc VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 across across ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 eight eight NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 nummod _ _ 6 countries country NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 9 Mont Mont PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 10 Blanc Blanc PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 flat _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 French French ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 15 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 14 punct _ _ 16 Italian Italian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 border border NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ Agree=R2-punct-next|Haiku=3:punct 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 22 nmod:poss _ _ 21 highest high ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=22:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 22 peak peak NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 23 at at ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 about about ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 4,800 4,800 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 26 nummod _ _ 26 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:obl 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 30 nmod:poss _ _ 29 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 height height NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 31 changing change VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 slightly slightly ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 33 with with ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 35 ice ice NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 cap cap NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 22 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arc** | present | the Alps | | | eight countries | | | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | Mont on the Italian border | countries's highest peak and Alps's exact height | | 4,800 metres | | | tree rules | | 3 | **change** | gerund | Alps's exact height *not said here* | | | | | with Alps's ice cap; slightly *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:017-mountains-and-highlands.lesson:11`. **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): R2-punct-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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: [Mountains and highlands, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/10/) - next →: [Mountains and highlands, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/17-mountains-and-highlands/)