The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 1

In its roaring rapids the goliath tigerfish hunts with long dagger teeth that fit together like a trap, and it can grow as big as a large child.

Who acts: goliath tigerfish, long dagger teeth, tigerfish · What happens: roar, hunt, fit together, grow · To what, where: roaring rapids

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» 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 (goliath tigerfish, long dagger teeth, tigerfish), 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 rapids	case
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rapids	nmod:poss
3	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 rapids	amod
4	rapids	rapid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hunts	obl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tigerfish	det
6	goliath	goliath	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tigerfish	compound
7	tigerfish	tigerfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hunts	nsubj
8	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 teeth	case
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 teeth	amod
11	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 teeth	compound
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hunts	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 fit	nsubj
14	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 teeth	acl:relcl
15	together	together	ADV	_	14 fit	advmod
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 trap	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 trap	det
18	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fit	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 grow	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 grow	cc
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 grow	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 grow	aux
23	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hunts	conj
24	as	as	ADV	_	25 big	advmod
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 grow	xcomp
26	as	as	ADP	_	29 child	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 child	det
28	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 child	amod
29	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 big	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hunts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	roar	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hunt	present	the goliath tigerfish	Congo's roaring rapids	with long dagger teeth	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in rapid=Location
3	fit together	present	long dagger teeth		like a trap; together property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	grow	can	tigerfish		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:160-the-congo-river.lesson:1.

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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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