--- title: The Congo peafowl, a shy cousin of the Indian peacock, lives only in… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics description: The Congo peafowl, a shy cousin of the Indian peacock, lives only in the Congo forest; a feather in a villager's hat puzzled a scientist years before the bird was named in 1936. Who acts: Congo peafowl, feather. 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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 (Congo peafowl, feather), 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:13 # text = The Congo peafowl, a shy cousin of the Indian peacock, lives only in the Congo forest; a feather in a villager's hat puzzled a scientist years before the bird was named in 1936. # 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 Congo Congo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=3:compound|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 3 peafowl peafowl NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 shy shy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 cousin cousin NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 8 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 10 Indian Indian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 peacock peacock NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 13 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 14 only only ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 Congo Congo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 21 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 feather feather NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=26:det 24 villager villager NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 's 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 hat hat NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 27 puzzled puzzle VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 scientist scientist NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 30 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl:unmarked _ _ 31 before before SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj:pass _ _ 34 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 27 advcl _ _ 36 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 1936 1936 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27: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 | the Congo peafowl | | | the Congo forest | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | | 2 | **puzzle** | past | a feather in a villager's hat | a scientist | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus scientist=Experiencer | | 3 | **name** | past · passive | | the bird | | 1936 | year | | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:13`. **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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/12/) - next →: [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/14/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/)