The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 6

In the flooded forest fish like the tambaqui eat fallen fruit and nuts and spread the seeds, doing the job birds do on land.

Who acts: fish, birds · What happens: flood, eat, fall, spread, do · To what, where: fallen fruit, flooded forest, seeds, job, land

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 (fish, birds), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 forest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 forest	det
3	flooded	flood	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 forest	amod
4	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obl
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	nsubj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 tambaqui	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tambaqui	det
8	tambaqui	tambaqui	X	Foreign=Yes	5 fish	nmod
9	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 fruit	amod
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 nuts	cc
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fruit	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 spread	cc
15	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 eat	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 seeds	det
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 spread	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 doing	punct
19	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 spread	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 job	det
21	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 doing	obj
22	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 do	nsubj
23	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 job	acl:relcl
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 land	case
25	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 do	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 eat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	flood	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	eat	present	fish like the tambaqui	fallen fruit and nuts	the flooded forest	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient
3	fall	participle				vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	spread	present	fish like the tambaqui not said here	the seeds		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme
5	do	gerund	fish like the tambaqui not said here	the job		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
6	do	present	birds	the job not said here	land	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality

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:6.

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): 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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