The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 16
The Congo River has more than seven hundred kinds of fish, many found nowhere else, and new kinds are still described almost every year.
Who acts: Congo River, hundred kinds · What happens: have, find, describe · To what, where: hundred kinds, many, new kinds
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 (Congo River, hundred kinds), 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 River | det |
| 2 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 River | compound |
| 3 | River | River | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 8 hundred | advmod |
| 6 | than | than | ADP | _ | 5 more | fixed |
| 7 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hundred | compound |
| 8 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 kinds | nummod |
| 9 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fish | case |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kinds | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 described | punct |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 found | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 kinds | acl |
| 15 | nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 found | advmod |
| 16 | else | else | ADV | _ | 15 nowhere | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 described | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 described | cc |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 kinds | amod |
| 20 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 described | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 described | aux:pass |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 described | advmod |
| 23 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 has | conj |
| 24 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 26 year | advmod |
| 25 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 year | det |
| 26 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 described | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | 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 | have | present | the Congo River | hundred kinds of fish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | participle · passive | hundred kinds of fish not said here | many | nowhere property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 3 | describe | present · passive | new kinds | still; year | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=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:16.
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): no change. 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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