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title: In 2022 a giant freshwater stingray of about three hundred kilograms… — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hipp… · tree and pragmatics
description: In 2022 a giant freshwater stingray of about three hundred kilograms was caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia; it was measured, tagged and released, and was reported as the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded. A sentence of the lesson «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant ca
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# Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 8

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In 2022 a giant freshwater stingray of about three hundred kilograms was caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia; it was measured, tagged and released, and was reported as the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded.

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**What happens:** catch, measure, tag, release, report, record · **To what, where:** giant freshwater stingray, 2022, stingray, biggest freshwater fish

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:8
# text = In 2022 a giant freshwater stingray of about three hundred kilograms was caught in the Mekong River in Cambodia; it was measured, tagged and released, and was reported as the biggest freshwater fish ever recorded.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	2022	2022	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	13	obl	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	stingray	stingray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	about	about	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	compound	_	_
10	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	kilograms	kilogram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Mekong	Mekong	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	River	River	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Cambodia	Cambodia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	measured	measure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	tagged	tag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	36	amod	_	_
35	freshwater	freshwater	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	fish	fish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	38	advmod	_	_
38	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past · passive |  | a giant freshwater stingray of hundred kilograms |  | 2022 |  | in the Mekong River in Cambodia | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **measure** | past · passive |  | stingray |  |  |  |  | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value |
| 3 | **tag** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **release** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 5 | **report** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | as the biggest freshwater fish | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: as fish=Attribute |
| 6 | **record** | participle |  | the biggest freshwater fish *not said here* |  |  | ever |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-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.

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