The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 1

In that brown water a pink dolphin, the boto, twists between branches after fish, and a giant arapaima comes up to gulp air with a loud cough.

Who acts: giant arapaima · What happens: twist, come up, gulp · To what, where: branches, air

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 (giant arapaima), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 water	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 water	det
3	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dolphin	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dolphin	det
6	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dolphin	amod
7	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boto	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 boto	det
10	boto	boto	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dolphin	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 twists	punct
12	twists	twist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dolphin	conj
13	between	between	ADP	_	14 branches	case
14	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 twists	obl
15	after	after	ADP	_	16 fish	case
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 twists	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 comes	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 comes	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 arapaima	det
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 arapaima	amod
21	arapaima	arapaima	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 comes	nsubj
22	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 dolphin	conj
23	up	up	ADV	_	25 gulp	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 gulp	mark
25	gulp	gulp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 comes	xcomp
26	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gulp	obj
27	with	with	ADP	_	30 cough	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 cough	det
29	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 cough	amod
30	cough	cough	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gulp	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dolphin	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twist	present			branches	after fish		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme between branch=Trajectory
2	come up	present	a giant arapaima					tree rules
3	gulp	to-infinitive	a giant arapaima not said here	air			with a loud cough	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient

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:1.

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. 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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