--- title: Near the city of Manaus a dark river like tea and a pale river like… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: Near the city of Manaus a dark river like tea and a pale river like milky coffee run side by side for kilometres without mixing, because they differ in temperature, speed and what is dissolved in them. Who acts: dark river, 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 (dark river, 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:3 # text = Near the city of Manaus a dark river like tea and a pale river like milky coffee run side by side for kilometres without mixing, because they differ in temperature, speed and what is dissolved in them. # 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): no change 1 Near near ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 Manaus Manaus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 dark dark ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 9 like like ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 10 tea tea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 pale pale ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 conj _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 milky milky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 coffee coffee NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 18 run run VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 20 by by ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 kilometres kilometre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obl _ _ 24 without without ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 mixing mixing NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 27 because because SCONJ IN _ 29 mark _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 differ differ VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 temperature temperature NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 conj _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 35 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 nsubj:pass _ _ 36 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 aux:pass _ _ 37 dissolved dissolve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 conj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 obl _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 18 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run** | present | a dark river like tea and a pale river like milky coffee | side by side | | the city of Manaus | | for kilometres; without mixing | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near city=Trajectory | | 2 | **differ** | present | children *= child* | | | temperature and speed | | | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **dissolve** | present · passive | | temperature and speed | | | | in children *= child* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:3`. **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): no change. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/2/) - next →: [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/)