--- title: Giant otters live in noisy family groups of about six to ten that ga… — The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest,… · tree and pragmatics description: Giant otters live in noisy family groups of about six to ten that gang up to drive off a caiman, a kind of crocodile, and each has a throat patch as unique as a fingerprint. Who acts: Giant otters, noisy family groups, each. 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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 (Giant otters, noisy family groups, each), 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:8 # text = Giant otters live in noisy family groups of about six to ten that gang up to drive off a caiman, a kind of crocodile, and each has a throat patch as unique as a fingerprint. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 otters otter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 live live VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 noisy noisy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 groups group NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 six six NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nmod _ _ 11 to to ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 ten ten NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 10 nmod _ _ 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 gang gang VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 15 up up ADP RP _ 14 compound:prt _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 drive drive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:xcomp 18 off off ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 caiman caiman NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 kind kind NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 appos _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 26 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 28 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 29 nsubj _ _ 29 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 30 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 throat throat NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 patch patch NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ _ 33 as as ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 34 unique unique ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 35 as as ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 fingerprint fingerprint NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | Giant otters | | | noisy family groups of six to ten | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | | 2 | **gang up** | present | noisy family groups of six to ten | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **drive off** | to-infinitive | noisy family groups of six to ten *not said here* | a caiman | | | | | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme caiman=Trajectory | | 4 | **have** | present | each | a throat patch | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent patch=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:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×2. **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…, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/7/) - next →: [The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flood…, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/155-the-amazon-river/)