--- title: In the murky water an elephantnose fish cannot see, so it makes weak… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics description: In the murky water an elephantnose fish cannot see, so it makes weak electricity and feels the world by its electric field, and in dried-up pools a lungfish sleeps in a ball of mud until the rain comes back. Who acts: elephantnose fish, fish, lungfish, rain. A sentence of the lesson «The Congo river --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 2 In the murky water an elephantnose fish cannot see, so it makes weak electricity and feels the world by its electric field, and in dried-up pools a lungfish sleeps in a ball of mud until the rain comes back. **Who acts:** elephantnose fish, fish, lungfish, rain · **What happens:** not see, make, feel, dry up, sleep, come back · **To what, where:** murky water, weak electricity, world, dried pools 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 (elephantnose fish, fish, lungfish, rain), 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:2 # text = In the murky water an elephantnose fish cannot see, so it makes weak electricity and feels the world by its electric field, and in dried-up pools a lungfish sleeps in a ball of mud until the rain comes back. # 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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 murky murky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ _ 5 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 elephantnose elephantnose NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 fish fish NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 8 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 9 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 10 advmod _ _ 10 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 13 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 makes make VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 ccomp _ _ 15 weak weak ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 electricity electricity NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 feels feel VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 conj _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 by by ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 23 electric electric ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 field field NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 28 dried dry VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 amod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=31:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 29 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 28 punct _ _ 30 up up ADP RP _ 28 compound:prt _ _ 31 pools pool NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 lungfish lungfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 sleeps sleep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 ball ball NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 mud mud NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 40 until until SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 rain rain NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 advcl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=34:conj 44 back back ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 45 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **see** | can | a elephantnose fish | | | the murky water | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **make** | present | fish | weak electricity | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material electricity=Product | | 3 | **feel** | present | fish *not said here* | the world | | | | by fish's electric field | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent world=Theme by field=Location | | 4 | **dry up** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **sleep** | present | a lungfish | | | dried pools | | in a ball of mud | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in pool=Location | | 6 | **come back** | present | the rain | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «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:2`. **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 ×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…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/1/) - next →: [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/3/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/)