--- title: The boto, or Amazon river dolphin, can turn its head because its nec… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: The boto, or Amazon river dolphin, can turn its head because its neck bones are not joined, and older botos are often the pinkest because scraped skin heals with pink scar tissue. Who acts: boto, older botos, scraped skin. 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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 (boto, older botos, scraped skin), 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:4 # text = The boto, or Amazon river dolphin, can turn its head because its neck bones are not joined, and older botos are often the pinkest because scraped skin heals with pink scar tissue. # 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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 boto boto NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 5 Amazon Amazon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 6 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 dolphin dolphin NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 turn turn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 because because SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 14 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 nmod:poss _ _ 15 neck neck NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 bones bone NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 nsubj:pass _ _ 17 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux:pass _ _ 18 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 joined join VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 20 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 22 older old ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 23 amod _ _ 23 botos boto NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 24 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 cop _ _ 25 often often ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 pinkest pink ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 19 conj _ _ 28 because because SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 scraped scrape VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 amod _ _ 30 skin skin NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=27:nsubj 31 heals heal VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 advcl _ _ 32 with with ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 pink pink ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 34 scar scar NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ _ 35 tissue tissue NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ _ 36 . . PUNCT . _ 10 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 | **turn** | can | the boto or river dolphin | boto's head | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme | | 2 | **not** **join** | present · passive | | boto's neck bones | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | | 3 | **is** | present | older botos | | | | | often, pink *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **scrape** | participle | | | | | | | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **heal** | present | scraped skin | | | | | with pink scar tissue | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tissue=Instrument | 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. 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