--- title: The goliath tigerfish is one of the fiercest river fish, with long t… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics description: The goliath tigerfish is one of the fiercest river fish, with long teeth that stick out like a crocodile's, and hunts in the fast rough water of the Congo. Who acts: goliath tigerfish, long teeth. A sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» of --- [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/4/) [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/) / 4 # The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 4 The goliath tigerfish is one of the fiercest river fish, with long teeth that stick out like a crocodile's, and hunts in the fast rough water of the Congo. **Who acts:** goliath tigerfish, long teeth · **What happens:** be, stick out, hunt · **To what, where:** one, fast rough water 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 teeth), 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:4 # text = The goliath tigerfish is one of the fiercest river fish, with long teeth that stick out like a crocodile's, and hunts in the fast rough water of the Congo. # 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): R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 goliath goliath NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 3 tigerfish tigerfish NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 5 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 0 root _ _ 6 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 8 fiercest fierce ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 10 amod _ _ 9 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 nmod _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:nmod|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nmod _ _ 15 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 16 nsubj _ _ 16 stick stick VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 acl:relcl _ _ 17 out out ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 18 like like ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 crocodile crocodile NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 21 's 's PART POS _ 20 case _ _ 22 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 hunts hunt VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 27 fast fast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 28 rough rough ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 29 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Congo Congo PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the goliath tigerfish | one | | | | of the fiercest river fish with long teeth | tree rules | | 2 | **stick out** | present | long teeth | | | | | like a crocodile | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 3 | **hunt** | present | long teeth *not said here* | | | the fast rough water of the Congo | | | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | 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:4`. **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): 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…, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/3/) - next →: [The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepes…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/160-the-congo-river/)