--- title: The giant water lily Victoria has floating leaves up to about three… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: The giant water lily Victoria has floating leaves up to about three metres across, held up by air-filled ribs and guarded by spines underneath; a big leaf can hold a small child if the weight is spread evenly. Who acts: giant water lily, big leaf. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon river: pink dol --- [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/11/) [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/) / 11 # The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 11 The giant water lily Victoria has floating leaves up to about three metres across, held up by air-filled ribs and guarded by spines underneath; a big leaf can hold a small child if the weight is spread evenly. **Who acts:** giant water lily, big leaf · **What happens:** have, float, hold up, fill, guard, hold · **To what, where:** floating leaves, small child, weight 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 water lily, big leaf), 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:11 # text = The giant water lily Victoria has floating leaves up to about three metres across, held up by air-filled ribs and guarded by spines underneath; a big leaf can hold a small child if the weight is spread evenly. # 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): R5-strong ×6, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:det 2 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:amod 3 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 4 lily lily NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=5:compound 5 Victoria Victoria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:nsubj 6 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 floating float VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 8 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:VBG:_ 8 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obj _ _ 9 up up ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 10 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 about about ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 13 nummod _ _ 13 metres metre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:obl 14 across across ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 17 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 by by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 19 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ _ 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ _ 21 filled fill VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 amod _ _ 22 ribs rib NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 guarded guard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 25 by by ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 spines spine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl:agent _ _ 27 underneath underneath ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 28 ; ; PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 leaf leaf NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ _ 33 hold hold VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 parataxis _ _ 34 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 if if SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 39 weight weight NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux:pass _ _ 41 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 advcl _ _ 42 evenly evenly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 43 . . 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 | **have** | present | the giant water lily | floating leaves | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient | | 2 | **float** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **hold up** | participle | | floating leaves *not said here* | | | | by filled ribs | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 4 | **fill** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **guard** | participle | | | | | | underneath *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **hold** | can | a big leaf | a small child | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | | 7 | **spread** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · passive | | the weight | | | | evenly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | 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:11`. **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): R5-strong ×6, 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…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/10/) - next →: [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/)