Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 8

In 2022 a giant freshwater stingray of about three hundred kilograms was caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia; it was measured, tagged and released, and was reported as the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded.

What happens: catch, measure, tag, release, report, record · To what, where: giant freshwater stingray, 2022, stingray, biggest freshwater fish

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: 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	_	2 2022	case
2	2022	2022	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 caught	obl
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stingray	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stingray	amod
5	freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stingray	compound
6	stingray	stingray	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 caught	nsubj:pass
7	of	of	ADP	_	11 kilograms	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	10 hundred	advmod
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 hundred	compound
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 kilograms	nummod
11	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stingray	nmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 caught	aux:pass
13	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 River	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 River	det
16	Mekong	Mekong	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 River	compound
17	River	River	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 caught	obl
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 Cambodia	case
19	Cambodia	Cambodia	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 River	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 measured	punct
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 measured	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 measured	aux:pass
23	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 caught	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 tagged	punct
25	tagged	tag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 measured	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 released	cc
27	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 tagged	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reported	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 reported	cc
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 reported	aux:pass
31	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 measured	conj
32	as	as	ADP	_	36 fish	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fish	det
34	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	36 fish	amod
35	freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 fish	compound
36	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 reported	obl
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	38 recorded	advmod
38	recorded	record	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 fish	acl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 caught	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · passive	a giant freshwater stingray of hundred kilograms	2022		in the Mekong River in Cambodia	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	measure	past · passive	stingray				vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value
3	tag	participle					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	release	participle					vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer
5	report	past · passive				as the biggest freshwater fish	vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S_ING»: as fish=Attribute
6	record	participle	the biggest freshwater fish not said here		ever		vn scribble-25.2-1 «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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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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