--- title: In its roaring rapids the goliath tigerfish hunts with long dagger t… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics description: In its roaring rapids the goliath tigerfish hunts with long dagger teeth that fit together like a trap, and it can grow as big as a large child. Who acts: goliath tigerfish, long dagger teeth, tigerfish. A sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden bir --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/) / 1 # The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 1 In its roaring rapids the goliath tigerfish hunts with long dagger teeth that fit together like a trap, and it can grow as big as a large child. **Who acts:** goliath tigerfish, long dagger teeth, tigerfish · **What happens:** roar, hunt, fit together, grow · **To what, where:** roaring rapids This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» 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 (goliath tigerfish, long dagger teeth, tigerfish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:160-the-congo-river.lesson:1 # text = In its roaring rapids the goliath tigerfish hunts with long dagger teeth that fit together like a trap, and it can grow as big as a large child. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 160-the-congo-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 ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 roaring roar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 4 amod _ _ 4 rapids rapid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:det 6 goliath goliath NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:compound 7 tigerfish tigerfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:compound 8 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 9 with with ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 11 dagger dagger NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 compound _ _ 12 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:nmod 13 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 fit fit VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:acl:relcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBD:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 together together ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 trap trap NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 21 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 22 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 grow grow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 8 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=14:conj 24 as as ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 25 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 xcomp _ _ 26 as as ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 28 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 30 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **roar** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **hunt** | present | the goliath tigerfish | | | Congo's roaring rapids | | with long dagger teeth | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in rapid=Location | | 3 | **fit together** | present | long dagger teeth | | | | | like a trap; together *property* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **grow** | can | tigerfish | | | | | big *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:160-the-congo-river.lesson:1`. **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): R5-strong ×6, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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 Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/0/) - next →: [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/)