--- title: Cartoons show piranhas stripping a cow to bones in seconds; real pir… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoons show piranhas stripping a cow to bones in seconds; real piranhas are mostly timid shoaling fish and scavengers, and local children swim in piranha rivers every day. Who acts: Cartoons, real piranhas, local children. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cartoons, real piranhas, local children), 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:2 # text = Cartoons show piranhas stripping a cow to bones in seconds; real piranhas are mostly timid shoaling fish and scavengers, and local children swim in piranha rivers every day. # 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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Cartoons cartoon NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 piranhas piranha NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 stripping strip VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 xcomp _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 to to ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 seconds second NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:nmod 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 12 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 piranhas piranha NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nsubj _ _ 14 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 15 mostly mostly ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 16 timid timid ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 shoaling shoaling VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 amod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 18 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 parataxis _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:parataxis|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 scavengers scavenger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 conj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 23 local local ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 25 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 piranha piranha NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 . . 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 | **show** | present | Cartoons | piranhas | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent piranha=Recipient | | 2 | **strip** | gerund | Cartoons *not said here* | a cow | | | second | to bones | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | | 3 | **shoaling** | gerund | | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | real piranhas | timid shoaling fish and scavengers | | | | mostly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **swim** | present | local children | | | piranha rivers | day | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=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:2`. **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, R7-rel-agree ×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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/1/) - next →: [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/)