--- title: The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the biggest mangrove fores… — Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, arc… · tree and pragmatics description: The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the biggest mangrove forest in the world, and its Bengal tigers swim between islands and eat fish, crabs and deer. Who acts: Sundarbans, Bengal tigers. 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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 (Sundarbans, Bengal tigers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:9 # text = The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the biggest mangrove forest in the world, and its Bengal tigers swim between islands and eat fish, crabs and deer. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Sundarbans Sundarbans PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 India India PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 Bangladesh Bangladesh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 cop _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 9 biggest big ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 amod _ _ 10 mangrove mangrove NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 forest forest NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 18 Bengal Bengal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 tigers tiger NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 swim swim VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 21 between between ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 islands island NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=20:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 25 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 crabs crab NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 deer deer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=27:conj 30 . . PUNCT . _ 11 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 | **is a** | present | the Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh | the biggest mangrove forest | | the world | | | tree rules | | 2 | **swim** | present | world's Bengal tigers | | | islands | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between island=Trajectory | | 3 | **eat** | present | world's Bengal tigers *not said here* | fish and crabs and deer | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | 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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:9`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. **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. 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