The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 4

The goliath tigerfish is one of the fiercest river fish, with long teeth that stick out like a crocodile's, and hunts in the fast rough water of the Congo.

Who acts: goliath tigerfish, long teeth · What happens: be, stick out, hunt · To what, where: one, fast rough 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 (goliath tigerfish, long teeth), 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 tigerfish	det
2	goliath	goliath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tigerfish	compound
3	tigerfish	tigerfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	10 fish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fish	det
8	fiercest	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 fish	amod
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fish	compound
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 teeth	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 teeth	case
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 teeth	amod
14	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fish	nmod
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stick	nsubj
16	stick	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 teeth	acl:relcl
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 stick	compound:prt
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 crocodile	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 crocodile	det
20	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stick	obl
21	's	's	PART	_	20 crocodile	case
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 hunts	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 hunts	cc
24	hunts	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 stick	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	29 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
27	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 water	amod
28	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 water	amod
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hunts	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Congo	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Congo	det
32	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 water	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the goliath tigerfish	one		of the fiercest river fish with long teeth	tree rules
2	stick out	present	long teeth			like a crocodile	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	hunt	present	long teeth not said here		the fast rough water of the Congo		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location

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:4.

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): 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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