The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 3

Near the city of Manaus a dark river like tea and a pale river like milky coffee run side by side for kilometres without mixing, because they differ in temperature, speed and what is dissolved in them.

Who acts: dark river, children · What happens: run, differ, dissolve · To what, where: side, city, temperature

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 (dark river, 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	Near	near	ADP	_	3 city	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 city	det
3	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 run	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 Manaus	case
5	Manaus	Manaus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 city	nmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 river	det
7	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 river	amod
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 run	nsubj
9	like	like	ADP	_	10 tea	case
10	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 river	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 river	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 river	det
13	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 river	amod
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 river	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 coffee	case
16	milky	milky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 coffee	amod
17	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 river	nmod
18	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 run	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	21 side	case
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 side	nmod
22	for	for	ADP	_	23 kilometres	case
23	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 run	obl
24	without	without	ADP	_	25 mixing	case
25	mixing	mixing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 run	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 run	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	29 differ	mark
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 differ	nsubj
29	differ	differ	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 run	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 temperature	case
31	temperature	temperature	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 differ	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 speed	punct
33	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 temperature	conj
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 dissolved	cc
35	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 dissolved	nsubj:pass
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 dissolved	aux:pass
37	dissolved	dissolve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 temperature	conj
38	in	in	ADP	_	39 them	case
39	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 dissolved	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 run	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	present	a dark river like tea and a pale river like milky coffee	side by side	the city of Manaus	for kilometres; without mixing	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near city=Trajectory
2	differ	present	children = child		temperature and speed		vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	dissolve	present · passive		temperature and speed		in children = child	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:3.

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): no change. 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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