Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 9
The Pantanal in Brazil is the world's biggest tropical wetland, where jaguars hunt caimans (cousins of crocodiles) and capybaras (giant rodents) and big animals are easier to see than in the rainforest.
Who acts: Pantanal, jaguars, big animals · What happens: be, hunt, see · To what, where: biggest tropical wetland, caimans, rainforest
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 (Pantanal, jaguars, big animals), 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 | 2 Pantanal | det |
| 2 | Pantanal | Pantanal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wetland | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Brazil | case |
| 4 | Brazil | Brazil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Pantanal | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wetland | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wetland | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 world | case |
| 9 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 wetland | amod |
| 10 | tropical | tropical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wetland | amod |
| 11 | wetland | wetland | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunt | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 hunt | advmod |
| 14 | jaguars | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hunt | nsubj |
| 15 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 wetland | acl:relcl |
| 16 | caimans | caiman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hunt | obj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 18 cousins | punct |
| 18 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 caimans | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 crocodiles | case |
| 20 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cousins | nmod |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 18 cousins | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 capybaras | cc |
| 23 | capybaras | capybara | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 caimans | conj |
| 24 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 26 rodents | punct |
| 25 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rodents | amod |
| 26 | rodents | rodent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 capybaras | appos |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 26 rodents | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 easier | cc |
| 29 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 animals | amod |
| 30 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 easier | nsubj |
| 31 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 easier | cop |
| 32 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 hunt | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 see | mark |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 easier | xcomp |
| 35 | than | than | CCONJ | _ | 38 rainforest | cc |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 rainforest | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 rainforest | det |
| 38 | rainforest | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wetland | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Pantanal in Brazil | the world's biggest tropical wetland | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | jaguars | caimans and capybaras | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caiman=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | big animals | easy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | big animals not said here | the rainforest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:9.
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): no change. 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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