--- title: Kingfishers plunge in beak first, and Japan's bullet train was given… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: Kingfishers plunge in beak first, and Japan's bullet train was given a kingfisher-shaped nose to make it quieter. Who acts: Kingfishers. 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 with its depende --- [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/16/) [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/) / 16 # The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 16 Kingfishers plunge in beak first, and Japan's bullet train was given a kingfisher-shaped nose to make it quieter. **Who acts:** Kingfishers · **What happens:** plunge, give, shape, make · **To what, where:** bullet train, nose 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 (Kingfishers), 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:16 # text = Kingfishers plunge in beak first, and Japan's bullet train was given a kingfisher-shaped nose to make it quieter. # 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 ×1 1 Kingfishers kingfisher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 plunge plunge VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 2 advmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 8 Japan Japan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ _ 9 's 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 bullet bullet NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 train train NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj:pass _ _ 12 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux:pass _ _ 13 given give VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 2 conj _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 15 kingfisher kingfisher NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 compound _ _ 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ _ 17 shaped shape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=18:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 18 nose nose NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 19 to to PART TO _ 20 mark _ _ 20 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:acl 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 22 quieter quiet ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 20 xcomp _ _ 23 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **plunge** | present | Kingfishers | | | | | in beak; first *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in beak=Attribute | | 2 | **give** | past · passive | | Japan's bullet train | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient nose=Theme | | 3 | **shape** | participle | | | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **make** | to-infinitive | | nose | | | | quiet *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product | 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:16`. **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 ×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…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/14/) - next →: [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/17/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/)