The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 11
Elephantnose fish make weak electricity to sense their surroundings and talk to each other in dark, muddy water.
Who acts: Elephantnose fish · What happens: make, sense, talk · To what, where: weak electricity, surroundings, dark muddy water
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 (Elephantnose fish), 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 | Elephantnose | elephantnose | NOUN | _ | 2 fish | compound |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 make | nsubj |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 electricity | amod |
| 5 | electricity | electricity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 sense | mark |
| 7 | sense | sense | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 make | advcl |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 9 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 sense | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 talk | cc |
| 11 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sense | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 talk | obl |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 each | fixed |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 water | case |
| 16 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dark | punct |
| 18 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 water | amod |
| 19 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 talk | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | 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 | make | present | Elephantnose fish | weak electricity | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=Product | ||||
| 2 | sense | to-infinitive | Elephantnose fish not said here | hippos's surroundings | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer surroundings=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | talk | infinitive | Elephantnose fish not said here | dark muddy water | to each | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to each=Co-Agent |
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:11.
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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