The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 0

The Congo rainforest in the middle of Africa is the second biggest rainforest on Earth, a dark green world of gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and elephants that walk under the trees.

Who acts: Congo rainforest, elephants · What happens: be, walk · To what, where: second biggest rainforest, Earth, trees

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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 (Congo rainforest, elephants), 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 rainforest	det
2	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 rainforest	compound
3	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rainforest	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 middle	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 middle	det
6	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rainforest	nmod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Africa	case
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 middle	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 rainforest	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 rainforest	det
11	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 rainforest	amod
12	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 rainforest	amod
13	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 Earth	case
15	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 rainforest	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 world	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 world	det
18	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 world	amod
19	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 world	amod
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 rainforest	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 gorillas	case
22	gorillas	gorilla	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 world	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 chimpanzees	punct
24	chimpanzees	chimpanzee	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gorillas	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bonobos	punct
26	bonobos	bonobo	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gorillas	conj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 elephants	cc
28	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gorillas	conj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 walk	nsubj
30	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 elephants	acl:relcl
31	under	under	ADP	_	33 trees	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 trees	det
33	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 walk	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 rainforest	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 Congo rainforest in the middle of Africa	the second biggest rainforest		Earth			tree rules
2	walk	present	elephants			the trees			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under tree=Trajectory

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:159-the-congo-rainforest.lesson:0.

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. 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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