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title: The Amazon basin has well over two thousand known kinds of fish, mor… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Amazon basin has well over two thousand known kinds of fish, more than the whole Atlantic Ocean, and new ones are found every year. Who acts: Amazon basin. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology course of Mova's primary 
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# The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 13

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The Amazon basin has well over two thousand known kinds of fish, more than the whole Atlantic Ocean, and new ones are found every year.

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**Who acts:** Amazon basin · **What happens:** have, know, find · **To what, where:** thousand known kinds, new ones

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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 (Amazon basin), 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:13
# text = The Amazon basin has well over two thousand known kinds of fish, more than the whole Atlantic Ocean, and new ones are found every year.
# 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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	compound	_	_
8	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos
10	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	10	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj
15	than	than	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
26	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
27	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **have** | present | the Amazon basin | thousand known kinds of fish |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Patient |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **find** | present · passive |  | new ones |  |  | year |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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:13`.

**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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. **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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