The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 5
Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.
Who acts: Amazon · What happens: rise, flood · To what, where: huge areas
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 (Amazon), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 season | det |
| 2 | rainy | rainy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 season | amod |
| 3 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rises | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Amazon | det |
| 5 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rises | nsubj |
| 6 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 metres | case |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 metres | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 metres | case |
| 10 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 metres | nummod |
| 11 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rises | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 more | cc |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 metres | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 floods | cc |
| 15 | floods | flood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rises | conj |
| 16 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 areas | amod |
| 17 | areas | area | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 floods | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 forest | case |
| 19 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 areas | nmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 months | case |
| 21 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 floods | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rises | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | present | the Amazon | season | by ten metres | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by metre=Location | |||
| 2 | flood | present | the Amazon not said here | huge areas of forest | month | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent area=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:5.
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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