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title: In the flooded forest fish like the tambaqui eat fallen fruit and nu… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the flooded forest fish like the tambaqui eat fallen fruit and nuts and spread the seeds, doing the job birds do on land. Who acts: fish, birds. 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 
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# The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 6

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In the flooded forest fish like the tambaqui eat fallen fruit and nuts and spread the seeds, doing the job birds do on land.

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**Who acts:** fish, birds · **What happens:** flood, eat, fall, spread, do · **To what, where:** fallen fruit, flooded forest, seeds, job, land

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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 (fish, birds), 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:6
# text = In the flooded forest fish like the tambaqui eat fallen fruit and nuts and spread the seeds, doing the job birds do on land.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	flooded	flood	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=9:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
6	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	tambaqui	tambaqui	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	nmod	_	_
9	eat	eat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nuts	nut	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	spread	spread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	seeds	seed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	doing	do	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	acl:relcl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flood** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **eat** | present | fish like the tambaqui | fallen fruit and nuts |  | the flooded forest |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Patient |
| 3 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **spread** | present | fish like the tambaqui *not said here* | the seeds |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | gerund | fish like the tambaqui *not said here* | the job |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |
| 6 | **do** | present | birds | the job *not said here* |  | land |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality |

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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:6`.

**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): 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.

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