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title: Mount Everest has the highest peak above sea level, 8,849 metres; me… — Water, deserts and the shape of the land · tree and pragmatics
description: Mount Everest has the highest peak above sea level, 8,849 metres; measured from its base on the sea floor, Mauna Kea in Hawaii is taller, over 10,000 metres, though most of it is hidden under the sea. Who acts: Mount Everest, Mauna. A sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land»
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# Water, deserts and the shape of the land, sentence 13

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Mount Everest has the highest peak above sea level, 8,849 metres; measured from its base on the sea floor, Mauna Kea in Hawaii is taller, over 10,000 metres, though most of it is hidden under the sea.

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**Who acts:** Mount Everest, Mauna · **What happens:** have, measure, be, hide · **To what, where:** highest peak, sea level, base, most, sea

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Water, deserts and the shape of the land» of the myths 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, Mauna), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:myths:016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.lesson:13
# text = Mount Everest has the highest peak above sea level, 8,849 metres; measured from its base on the sea floor, Mauna Kea in Hawaii is taller, over 10,000 metres, though most of it is hidden under the sea.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = myths
# lesson = 016-water-deserts-and-the-shape-of-the-land.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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Everest	Everest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	8,849	8,849	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=6:nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	advcl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=23:punct
23	Mauna	Mauna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	Kea	Kea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	flat	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Hawaii	Hawaii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=23:nmod
27	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	taller	tall	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	over	over	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	10,000	10000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	32	nummod	_	_
32	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
35	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	nsubj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nmod	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
40	under	under	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **have** | present | Mount Everest | the highest peak |  | sea level |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peak=Patient |
| 2 | **measure** | participle | Mauna *not said here* |  |  | level's base |  | on the sea floor | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | Mauna |  |  |  |  | 10,000 metres *obl*; tall *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hide** | present · passive |  | most of floor |  | the sea |  |  | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient under sea=Location |

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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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**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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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