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title: Mount Everest in the Himalayas is the highest mountain on Earth, abo… — Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mount Everest in the Himalayas is the highest mountain on Earth, about 8,849 metres high. Who acts: Mount Everest. A sentence of the lesson «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped, sentence 7

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Mount Everest in the Himalayas is the highest mountain on Earth, about 8,849 metres high.

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**Who acts:** Mount Everest · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** highest mountain, Earth

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains, rivers and seas, and how the land is shaped» of the world 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:world:043-landforms.lesson:7
# text = Mount Everest in the Himalayas is the highest mountain on Earth, about 8,849 metres high.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = world
# lesson = 043-landforms.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 ×1
1	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Everest	Everest	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Himalayas	Himalayas	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	amod	_	_
9	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:appos
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	about	about	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	8,849	8,849	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:parataxis
16	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=15:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RB:Degree=Pos
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 in the Himalayas | the highest mountain |  | Earth |  |  | tree rules |

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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:world:043-landforms.lesson:7`.

**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 ×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/).

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