--- title: The Nile and the Amazon are the longest rivers in the world, and the… — Rivers, lakes and the sea up close · tree and pragmatics description: The Nile and the Amazon are the longest rivers in the world, and the Amazon carries by far the most water. Who acts: Nile, Amazon. A sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» of the world course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Rivers, lakes and the sea up close](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/) / 11 # Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, sentence 11 The Nile and the Amazon are the longest rivers in the world, and the Amazon carries by far the most water. **Who acts:** Nile, Amazon · **What happens:** be, carry · **To what, where:** longest rivers, world, most water This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and the sea up close» 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 (Nile, Amazon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.lesson:11 # text = The Nile and the Amazon are the longest rivers in the world, and the Amazon carries by far the most water. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.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, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Nile Nile PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 6 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 9 amod _ _ 9 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=17:det 16 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 22 advmod _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 22 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=22:advmod|HaikuPos=ADV:RBS:Degree=Sup 22 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=17:obl 23 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the Nile and the Amazon | the longest rivers | | the world | | | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | present | the Amazon | the most water | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | 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:world:064-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea.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): R5-strong ×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/). - ← previous: [Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/10/) - next →: [Rivers, lakes and the sea up close, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/64-rivers-lakes-and-the-sea/)