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title: Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics
description: Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months. Who acts: Amazon. 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 dependency tree an
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# The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 5

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Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.

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**Who acts:** Amazon · **What happens:** rise, flood · **To what, where:** huge areas

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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 (Amazon), 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:5
# text = Every rainy season the Amazon rises by up to ten metres or more and floods huge areas of forest for months.
# 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	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	rainy	rainy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Amazon	Amazon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rises	rise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	metres	metre	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	floods	flood	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	areas	area	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | present | the Amazon |  |  |  | season | by ten metres | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by metre=Location |
| 2 | **flood** | present | the Amazon *not said here* | huge areas of forest |  |  | month |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent area=Patient |

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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.

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**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:5`.

**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/).

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