Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 2

Rivers hold some of the biggest freshwater fish on Earth, dolphins that find food in muddy water by echoes, and in Brazil's Pantanal, jaguars that hunt caimans along the banks.

Who acts: Rivers, dolphins, jaguars · What happens: hold, find, hunt · To what, where: some, food, muddy water, caimans, banks

This is a sentence of the lesson «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 (Rivers, dolphins, jaguars), 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	Rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 hold	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 fish	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
6	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 fish	amod
7	freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fish	compound
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 some	nmod
9	on	on	ADP	_	10 Earth	case
10	Earth	Earth	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fish	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dolphins	punct
12	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fish	appos
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 find	nsubj
14	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 dolphins	acl:relcl
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	muddy	muddy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 find	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 echoes	case
20	echoes	echo	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 find	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Pantanal	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 Pantanal	cc
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 Pantanal	case
24	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 Pantanal	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 Brazil	case
26	Pantanal	Pantanal	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 dolphins	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 jaguars	punct
28	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 Pantanal	appos
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 hunt	nsubj
30	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 jaguars	acl:relcl
31	caimans	caiman	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hunt	obj
32	along	along	ADP	_	34 banks	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 banks	det
34	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 hunt	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present	Rivers	some			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
2	find	present	dolphins and Brazil's Pantanal	food	muddy water	by echoes	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
3	hunt	present	jaguars	caimans	the banks		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent caiman=Theme along bank=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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.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): 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.

See the release 0.4.

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