The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 2

In the murky water an elephantnose fish cannot see, so it makes weak electricity and feels the world by its electric field, and in dried-up pools a lungfish sleeps in a ball of mud until the rain comes back.

Who acts: elephantnose fish, fish, lungfish, rain · What happens: not see, make, feel, dry up, sleep, come back · To what, where: murky water, weak electricity, world, dried pools

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, fish, lungfish, rain), 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 water	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 water	det
3	murky	murky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	obl
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	elephantnose	elephantnose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fish	compound
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 see	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 see	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 see	advmod
10	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 makes	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 makes	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 makes	nsubj
14	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	ccomp
15	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 electricity	amod
16	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 makes	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 feels	cc
18	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 makes	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 world	det
20	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feels	obj
21	by	by	ADP	_	24 field	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 field	nmod:poss
23	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 field	amod
24	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 feels	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sleeps	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sleeps	cc
27	in	in	ADP	_	31 pools	case
28	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 pools	amod
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 dried	punct
30	up	up	ADP	_	28 dried	compound:prt
31	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sleeps	obl
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 lungfish	det
33	lungfish	lungfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sleeps	nsubj
34	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 see	conj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 ball	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 ball	det
37	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sleeps	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 mud	case
39	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 ball	nmod
40	until	until	SCONJ	_	43 comes	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 rain	det
42	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 comes	nsubj
43	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 sleeps	advcl
44	back	back	ADV	_	43 comes	advmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 see	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not see	can	a elephantnose fish		the murky water		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	make	present	fish	weak electricity			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material electricity=Product
3	feel	present	fish not said here	the world		by fish's electric field	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent world=Theme by field=Location
4	dry up	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	sleep	present	a lungfish		dried pools	in a ball of mud	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pool=Location
6	come back	present	the rain				vn escape-51.1-1 «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:2.

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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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