The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 17

Young hoatzins have claws on their wings, so after dropping into the water to escape a snake they swim and climb back up to the nest.

Who acts: Young hoatzins, hoatzins · What happens: have, drop, escape, swim, climb back · To what, where: claws, wings, water, snake, nest

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 (Young hoatzins, hoatzins), 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	Young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hoatzins	amod
2	hoatzins	hoatzin	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 wings	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wings	nmod:poss
7	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 claws	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 escape	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	16 escape	advmod
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 dropping	mark
11	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 escape	advcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 dropping	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 escape	mark
16	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 have	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 snake	det
18	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 escape	obj
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 swim	nsubj
20	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 snake	acl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 climb	cc
22	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 swim	conj
23	back	back	ADV	_	22 climb	advmod
24	up	up	ADP	_	27 nest	case
25	to	to	ADP	_	24 up	fixed
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 nest	det
27	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 climb	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	Young hoatzins	claws	hoatzins's wings	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient
2	drop	gerund			the water	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory
3	escape	to-infinitive	Young hoatzins not said here	a snake		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snake=Initial_Location
4	swim	present	hoatzins = hoatzin	a snake not said here		vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location snake=Theme
5	climb back	infinitive	hoatzins = hoatzin not said here		the nest	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up nest=Trajectory

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:17.

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. 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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