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title: Some fish in the deep rapids are cut off by strong currents deep dow… — The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, l… · tree and pragmatics
description: Some fish in the deep rapids are cut off by strong currents deep down in the dark, where eyes and colour matter little, and have become blind and pale. Who acts: strong currents, eyes. A sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» of the biology 
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# The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 6

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Some fish in the deep rapids are cut off by strong currents deep down in the dark, where eyes and colour matter little, and have become blind and pale.

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**Who acts:** strong currents, eyes · **What happens:** cut off, matter, become · **To what, where:** fish

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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 (strong currents, eyes), 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:6
# text = Some fish in the deep rapids are cut off by strong currents deep down in the dark, where eyes and colour matter little, and have become blind and pale.
# 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, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	2	det	_	_
2	fish	fish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=8:nsubj:pass|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rapids	rapid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
7	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	currents	current	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	dark	dark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	matter	matter	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
24	little	little	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	23	advmod	_	_
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	23	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:conj
29	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed polarity=none

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | present · passive | strong currents in the dark | some fish in the deep rapids |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector subject=Eventuality |
| 2 | **matter** | present | eyes and colour |  |  |  |  | little *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **become** | present · perfect | eyes and colour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | blind *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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.

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**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:6`.

**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, 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/).

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