The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 3

Cartoon hippos like Gloria in Madagascar swim and dance; real hippos cannot really swim, so they walk and bounce along the bottom and come up to breathe.

Who acts: Cartoon hippos, real hippos, hippos · What happens: swim, dance, not swim, walk, bounce, come up · To what, where: bottom

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 (Cartoon hippos, real hippos, hippos), 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	Cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hippos	compound
2	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swim	nsubj
3	like	like	ADP	_	4 Gloria	case
4	Gloria	Gloria	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hippos	nmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 swim	case
6	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 swim	compound
7	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 swim	parataxis
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 dance	cc
9	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 swim	conj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 swim	punct
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hippos	amod
12	hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 swim	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 swim	aux
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 swim	advmod
15	really	really	ADV	_	16 swim	advmod
16	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 walk	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 walk	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 walk	nsubj
20	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 swim	parataxis
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bounce	cc
22	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 walk	conj
23	along	along	ADP	_	25 bottom	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bottom	det
25	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 bounce	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 come	cc
27	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 swim	conj
28	up	up	ADV	_	27 come	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 breathe	mark
30	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 come	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 swim	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	swim	present	Cartoon hippos like Gloria		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dance	present	Cartoon hippos like Gloria not said here		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not swim	can	real hippos		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk	present	hippos = hippo		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	bounce	present	hippos = hippo not said here	the bottom	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory
6	come up	infinitive	real hippos not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	breathe	to-infinitive	real hippos not said here		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:3.

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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