--- title: Young hoatzins have claws on their wings, so after dropping into the… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: Young hoatzins have claws on their wings, so after dropping into the water to escape a snake they swim and climb back up to the nest. Who acts: Young hoatzins, hoatzins. A sentence of the lesson «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» of the biology course of Mova' --- [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/17/) [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/) / 17 # The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 17 Young hoatzins have claws on their wings, so after dropping into the water to escape a snake they swim and climb back up to the nest. **Who acts:** Young hoatzins, hoatzins · **What happens:** have, drop, escape, swim, climb back · **To what, where:** claws, wings, water, snake, nest 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 (Young hoatzins, hoatzins), 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:17 # text = Young hoatzins have claws on their wings, so after dropping into the water to escape a snake they swim and climb back up to the nest. # 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 1 Young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 hoatzins hoatzin NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 claws claw NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nmod _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 10 after after SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 11 dropping drop VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 12 into into ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 to to PART TO _ 16 mark _ _ 16 escape escape VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 advcl _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 climb climb VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 23 back back ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 up up ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 24 fixed _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 nest nest NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ _ 28 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | present | Young hoatzins | claws | | hoatzins's wings | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient | | 2 | **drop** | gerund | | | | the water | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into water=Trajectory | | 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive | Young hoatzins *not said here* | a snake | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme snake=Initial\_Location | | 4 | **swim** | present | hoatzins *= hoatzin* | a snake *not said here* | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location snake=Theme | | 5 | **climb back** | infinitive | hoatzins *= hoatzin* *not said here* | | | the nest | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up nest=Trajectory | 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:17`. **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. **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…, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/16/) - next →: [The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagl…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/156-the-amazon-canopy/0/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/)