The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 12

The matamata turtle looks like dead leaves and catches fish by suddenly opening its huge mouth so water and fish rush in, and swallows each meal whole.

Who acts: matamata turtle, water · What happens: look, catch, open, rush in, swallow · To what, where: fish, huge mouth, meal

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 (matamata turtle, water), 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	3 turtle	det
2	matamata	matamata	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 turtle	compound
3	turtle	turtle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looks	nsubj
4	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 leaves	case
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 leaves	amod
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 looks	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 catches	cc
9	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	conj
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 catches	obj
11	by	by	SCONJ	_	13 opening	mark
12	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	13 opening	advmod
13	opening	open	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 catches	advcl
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mouth	nmod:poss
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 mouth	amod
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 opening	obj
17	so	so	ADV	_	21 rush	advmod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rush	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fish	cc
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 water	conj
21	rush	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	conj
22	in	in	ADV	_	21 rush	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 swallows	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 swallows	cc
25	swallows	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 looks	conj
26	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	27 meal	det
27	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swallows	obj
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 swallows	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 looks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	the matamata turtle		like dead leaves	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	catch	present	the matamata turtle not said here	fish		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	open	gerund	the matamata turtle not said here	turtle's huge mouth	suddenly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
4	rush in	present	water and fish			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	swallow	present	the matamata turtle not said here	each meal	whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=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:12.

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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