The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 6

Some fish in the deep rapids are cut off by strong currents deep down in the dark, where eyes and colour matter little, and have become blind and pale.

Who acts: strong currents, eyes · What happens: cut off, matter, become · To what, where: fish

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 (strong currents, eyes), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 fish	det
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cut	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 rapids	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rapids	det
5	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 rapids	amod
6	rapids	rapid	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fish	nmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 cut	aux:pass
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 currents	case
11	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 currents	amod
12	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 cut	obl
13	deep	deep	ADV	_	14 down	advmod
14	down	down	ADV	_	17 dark	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 dark	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dark	det
17	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 currents	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 little	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 matter	advmod
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 matter	nsubj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 colour	cc
22	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eyes	conj
23	matter	matter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 dark	acl:relcl
24	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 matter	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 become	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 become	cc
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 become	aux
28	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 matter	conj
29	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 become	xcomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pale	cc
31	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 blind	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 cut	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cut off	present · passive	strong currents in the dark	some fish in the deep rapids		vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector subject=Eventuality
2	matter	present	eyes and colour		little property	vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus
3	become	present · perfect	eyes and colour not said here		blind property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

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:6.

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, 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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