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title: In that brown water a pink dolphin, the boto, twists between branche… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that brown water a pink dolphin, the boto, twists between branches after fish, and a giant arapaima comes up to gulp air with a loud cough. Who acts: giant arapaima. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology course of Mova's
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# The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 1

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In that brown water a pink dolphin, the boto, twists between branches after fish, and a giant arapaima comes up to gulp air with a loud cough.

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**Who acts:** giant arapaima · **What happens:** twist, come up, gulp · **To what, where:** branches, air

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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 (giant arapaima), 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:1
# text = In that brown water a pink dolphin, the boto, twists between branches after fish, and a giant arapaima comes up to gulp air with a loud cough.
# 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
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	pink	pink	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=7:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
7	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	boto	boto	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	twists	twist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	arapaima	arapaima	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
23	up	up	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	gulp	gulp	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	cough	cough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twist** | present |  |  |  | branches | after fish |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme between branch=Trajectory |
| 2 | **come up** | present | a giant arapaima |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gulp** | to-infinitive | a giant arapaima *not said here* | air |  |  |  | with a loud cough | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Patient |

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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.

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**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:1`.

**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. **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/).

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