The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 2

Cartoons show piranhas stripping a cow to bones in seconds; real piranhas are mostly timid shoaling fish and scavengers, and local children swim in piranha rivers every day.

Who acts: Cartoons, real piranhas, local children · What happens: show, strip, shoaling, be, swim · To what, where: piranhas, cow, timid shoaling fish, piranha rivers

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 (Cartoons, real piranhas, local children), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	nsubj
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	obj
4	stripping	strip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 piranhas	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cow	det
6	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stripping	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 bones	case
8	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stripping	obl
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 seconds	case
10	seconds	second	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stripping	obl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 fish	punct
12	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 piranhas	amod
13	piranhas	piranha	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fish	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fish	cop
15	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	18 fish	advmod
16	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 fish	amod
17	shoaling	shoaling	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 fish	amod
18	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 show	parataxis
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 scavengers	cc
20	scavengers	scavenger	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 fish	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 swim	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 swim	cc
23	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 children	amod
24	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 swim	nsubj
25	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 fish	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 rivers	case
27	piranha	piranha	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 rivers	compound
28	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 swim	obl
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 day	det
30	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 swim	obl:unmarked
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 show	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	Cartoons	piranhas				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent piranha=Recipient
2	strip	gerund	Cartoons not said here	a cow		second	to bones	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient
3	shoaling	gerund						tree rules
4	is a	present	real piranhas	timid shoaling fish and scavengers			mostly property	tree rules
5	swim	present	local children		piranha rivers	day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=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:2.

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, 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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