The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 4
The boto, or Amazon river dolphin, can turn its head because its neck bones are not joined, and older botos are often the pinkest because scraped skin heals with pink scar tissue.
Who acts: boto, older botos, scraped skin · What happens: turn, not join, be, scrape, heal · To what, where: head, neck bones
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 (boto, older botos, scraped skin), 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 boto | det |
| 2 | boto | boto | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dolphin | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 dolphin | cc |
| 5 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 river | compound |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dolphin | compound |
| 7 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boto | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boto | punct |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 turn | aux |
| 10 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turn | obj |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 joined | mark |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bones | nmod:poss |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bones | compound |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 joined | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 joined | aux:pass |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 joined | advmod |
| 19 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 turn | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 pinkest | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 pinkest | cc |
| 22 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 botos | amod |
| 23 | botos | boto | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 pinkest | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 pinkest | cop |
| 25 | often | often | ADV | _ | 27 pinkest | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 pinkest | det |
| 27 | pinkest | pink | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 joined | conj |
| 28 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 31 heals | mark |
| 29 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 skin | amod |
| 30 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heals | nsubj |
| 31 | heals | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 pinkest | advcl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 tissue | case |
| 33 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 tissue | amod |
| 34 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 tissue | compound |
| 35 | tissue | tissue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 heals | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 turn | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | can | the boto or river dolphin | boto's head | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not join | present · passive | boto's neck bones | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | older botos | often, pink property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | scrape | participle | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | heal | present | scraped skin | with pink scar tissue | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tissue=Instrument |
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:4.
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, R6-punct-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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