Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 7
The black caiman is the biggest predator of the Amazon, over four metres long, and hunts fish and capybaras at night.
Who acts: black caiman · What happens: be, hunt · To what, where: biggest predator, fish
This is a sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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 (black caiman), 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 | 3 caiman | det |
| 2 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 caiman | amod |
| 3 | caiman | caiman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 predator | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 predator | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 predator | det |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 predator | amod |
| 7 | predator | predator | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Amazon | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Amazon | det |
| 10 | Amazon | Amazon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 predator | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 metres | punct |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 metres | case |
| 13 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 metres | nummod |
| 14 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 long | obl |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 predator | amod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hunts | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hunts | cc |
| 18 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 predator | conj |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hunts | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 capybaras | cc |
| 21 | capybaras | capybara | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fish | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunts | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 predator | 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 | is a | present | the black caiman | the biggest predator | of the Amazon | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hunt | present | the black caiman not said here | fish and capybaras | night | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme |
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:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.lesson:7.
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 ×2, 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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