The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 10

The pororoca is a tidal wave that pushes up the mouth of the Amazon when a strong high tide meets the river, and surfers have ridden it for over thirty minutes.

Who acts: pororoca, tidal wave, strong high tide, surfers · What happens: be, push up, meet, ride · To what, where: tidal wave, mouth, river

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 (pororoca, tidal wave, strong high tide, surfers), 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 pororoca	det
2	pororoca	pororoca	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wave	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wave	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wave	det
5	tidal	tidal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wave	amod
6	wave	wave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 pushes	nsubj
8	pushes	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 wave	acl:relcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	11 mouth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mouth	det
11	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pushes	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Amazon	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Amazon	det
14	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 mouth	nmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 meets	advmod
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 tide	det
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tide	amod
18	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 tide	amod
19	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meets	nsubj
20	meets	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 pushes	advcl
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meets	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ridden	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ridden	cc
25	surfers	surfer	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ridden	nsubj
26	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 ridden	aux
27	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 wave	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 ridden	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	32 minutes	case
30	over	over	ADV	_	31 thirty	advmod
31	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 minutes	nummod
32	minutes	minute	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 ridden	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 wave	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the pororoca	a tidal wave		tree rules
2	push up	present	a tidal wave	the mouth of the Amazon		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
3	meet	present	a strong high tide	the river		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Co-Agent
4	ride	present · perfect	surfers	river	minute	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=Location

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:10.

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): 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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