--- title: Cartoon hippos like Gloria in Madagascar swim and dance; real hippos… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics description: Cartoon hippos like Gloria in Madagascar swim and dance; real hippos cannot really swim, so they walk and bounce along the bottom and come up to breathe. Who acts: Cartoon hippos, real hippos, hippos. 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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 (Cartoon hippos, real hippos, hippos), 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:3 # text = Cartoon hippos like Gloria in Madagascar swim and dance; real hippos cannot really swim, so they walk and bounce along the bottom and come up to breathe. # 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 1 Cartoon cartoon NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 compound _ _ 2 hippos hippo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 3 like like ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Gloria Gloria PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 Madagascar Madagascar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 dance dance VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ _ 10 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 11 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 hippos hippo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 13 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 14 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 16 advmod _ _ 15 really really ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 swim swim VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 so so ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 walk walk VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 parataxis _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 bounce bounce VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 23 along along ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bottom bottom NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:obl 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 16 conj _ _ 28 up up ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 breathe breathe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 advcl _ _ 31 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **swim** | present | Cartoon hippos like Gloria | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **dance** | present | Cartoon hippos like Gloria *not said here* | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **not** **swim** | can | real hippos | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **walk** | present | hippos *= hippo* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **bounce** | present | hippos *= hippo* *not said here* | | | the bottom | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bottom=Trajectory | | 6 | **come up** | infinitive | real hippos *not said here* | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **breathe** | to-infinitive | real hippos *not said here* | | | | | | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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:3`. **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. **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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/2/) - next →: [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/4/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/)