--- title: The matamata turtle looks like dead leaves and catches fish by sudde… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: The matamata turtle looks like dead leaves and catches fish by suddenly opening its huge mouth so water and fish rush in, and swallows each meal whole. Who acts: matamata turtle, water. 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/12/) [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/) / 12 # The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 12 The matamata turtle looks like dead leaves and catches fish by suddenly opening its huge mouth so water and fish rush in, and swallows each meal whole. **Who acts:** matamata turtle, water · **What happens:** look, catch, open, rush in, swallow · **To what, where:** fish, huge mouth, meal 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 (matamata turtle, water), 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:12 # text = The matamata turtle looks like dead leaves and catches fish by suddenly opening its huge mouth so water and fish rush in, and swallows each meal whole. # 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 3 det _ _ 2 matamata matamata NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 turtle turtle NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 like like ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 catches catch VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 11 by by SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 opening open VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 advcl _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 17 so so ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 18 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 rush rush VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 22 in in ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 swallows swallow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 26 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 27 det _ _ 27 meal meal NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 whole whole ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ _ 29 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | the matamata turtle | | | | | like dead leaves | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **catch** | present | the matamata turtle *not said here* | fish | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme | | 3 | **open** | gerund | the matamata turtle *not said here* | turtle's huge mouth | | | | suddenly *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | | 4 | **rush in** | present | water and fish | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **swallow** | present | the matamata turtle *not said here* | each meal | | | | whole *property* | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient | 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:12`. **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…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/11/) - next →: [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/)