--- title: The pororoca is a tidal wave that pushes up the mouth of the Amazon… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: The pororoca is a tidal wave that pushes up the mouth of the Amazon when a strong high tide meets the river, and surfers have ridden it for over thirty minutes. Who acts: pororoca, tidal wave, strong high tide, surfers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pororoca, tidal wave, strong high tide, surfers), 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:10 # text = The pororoca is a tidal wave that pushes up the mouth of the Amazon when a strong high tide meets the river, and surfers have ridden it for over thirty minutes. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 pororoca pororoca NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 cop _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 tidal tidal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 wave wave NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 pushes push VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 up up ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 12 of of ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=11:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 20 advmod _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 17 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 18 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 meets meet VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 8 advcl _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 surfers surfer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 ridden ride VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 6 conj _ _ 28 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 for for ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 30 over over ADV RB _ 31 advmod _ _ 31 thirty thirty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 nummod _ _ 32 minutes minute NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 33 . . 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 pororoca | a tidal wave | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **push up** | present | a tidal wave | the mouth of the Amazon | | | | | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme | | 3 | **meet** | present | a strong high tide | the river | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Co-Agent | | 4 | **ride** | present · perfect | surfers | river | | | minute | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent it=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](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:10`. **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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/9/) - next →: [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/11/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/)