The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 0
The Amazon is the biggest river on Earth by the water it carries, and every rainy season it rises so high that fish swim among the tree tops of a drowned forest.
Who acts: Amazon, fish · What happens: be, carry, rise, swim, drown · To what, where: biggest river, Earth, water, tree tops
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology 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 (Amazon, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Amazon | det |
| 2 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 river | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 river | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 5 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 river | amod |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Earth | case |
| 8 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 river | nmod |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 water | det |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 river | nmod |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carries | nsubj |
| 13 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 water | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rises | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rises | cc |
| 16 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 season | det |
| 17 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 season | amod |
| 18 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rises | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 rises | nsubj |
| 20 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 river | conj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 high | advmod |
| 22 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 rises | advmod |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 swim | mark |
| 24 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 swim | nsubj |
| 25 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 rises | advcl |
| 26 | among | among | ADP | _ | 29 tops | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 tops | det |
| 28 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tops | compound |
| 29 | tops | top | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 swim | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 forest | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 forest | det |
| 32 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 forest | amod |
| 33 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tops | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 river | punct |
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 Amazon | the biggest river | Earth | by the water | tree rules | ||
| 2 | carry | present | Amazon | the water not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rise | present | Amazon | season | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | swim | present | fish | the tree tops of a drowned forest | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among top=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | drown | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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, 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:biology:155-the-amazon-river.lesson:0.
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): 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.
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