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title: Mount Everest, on the border of Nepal and China, is the highest moun… — Mountains and highlands · tree and pragmatics
description: Mount Everest, on the border of Nepal and China, is the highest mountain above sea level at 8,849 metres, a height agreed by both countries in 2020. Who acts: Mount Everest. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains and highlands» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree a
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# Mountains and highlands, sentence 6

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Mount Everest, on the border of Nepal and China, is the highest mountain above sea level at 8,849 metres, a height agreed by both countries in 2020.

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**Who acts:** Mount Everest · **What happens:** be, agree · **To what, where:** highest mountain, sea level, height, 2020

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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 (Mount Everest), 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:6
# text = Mount Everest, on the border of Nepal and China, is the highest mountain above sea level at 8,849 metres, a height agreed by both countries in 2020.
# 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): no change
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Everest	Everest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	border	border	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Nepal	Nepal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	China	China	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	amod	_	_
15	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
16	above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	8,849	8,849	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
25	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	2020	2020	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	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 a** | present | Mount Everest on the border of Nepal and China | the highest mountain |  | sea level |  | at 8,849 metres | tree rules |
| 2 | **agree** *speech: agree* | participle |  | a height *not said here* |  | 2020 |  | by both countries | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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:017-mountains-and-highlands.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): no change. **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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