--- title: The Amazon is the biggest river on Earth by the water it carries, an… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: The Amazon is the biggest river on Earth by the water it carries, and every rainy season it rises so high that fish swim among the tree tops of a drowned forest. Who acts: Amazon, fish. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/0/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/) / 0 # The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 0 The Amazon is the biggest river on Earth by the water it carries, and every rainy season it rises so high that fish swim among the tree tops of a drowned forest. **Who acts:** Amazon, fish · **What happens:** be, carry, rise, swim, drown · **To what, where:** biggest river, Earth, water, tree tops This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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 (Amazon, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:155-the-amazon-river.lesson:0 # text = The Amazon is the biggest river on Earth by the water it carries, and every rainy season it rises so high that fish swim among the tree tops of a drowned forest. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 155-the-amazon-river.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 6 amod _ _ 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 on on ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 Earth Earth PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 9 by by ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 carries carry VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 14 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 16 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 18 det _ _ 17 rainy rainy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl:unmarked _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 rises rise VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 21 so so ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 22 high high ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=20:xcomp|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 23 that that SCONJ IN _ 25 mark _ _ 24 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 advcl _ _ 26 among among ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 tops top NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 drowned drown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 amod _ _ 33 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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 Amazon | the biggest river | | Earth | | by the water | tree rules | | 2 | **carry** | present | Amazon | the water *not said here* | | | | | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | | 3 | **rise** | present | Amazon | | | | season | high *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **swim** | present | fish | | | the tree tops of a drowned forest | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among top=Trajectory | | 5 | **drown** | participle | | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:155-the-amazon-river.lesson:0`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [More animal myths: red rags, camel hum…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/154-more-animal-myths-from-cartoons/17/) - next →: [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/)