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title: The Pantanal in Brazil is the world's biggest tropical wetland, wher… — Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hipp… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pantanal in Brazil is the world's biggest tropical wetland, where jaguars hunt caimans (cousins of crocodiles) and capybaras (giant rodents) and big animals are easier to see than in the rainforest. Who acts: Pantanal, jaguars, big animals. A sentence of the lesson «Great rivers and wetlands: Ni
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# Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 9

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The Pantanal in Brazil is the world's biggest tropical wetland, where jaguars hunt caimans (cousins of crocodiles) and capybaras (giant rodents) and big animals are easier to see than in the rainforest.

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**Who acts:** Pantanal, jaguars, big animals · **What happens:** be, hunt, see · **To what, where:** biggest tropical wetland, caimans, rainforest

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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: who acts (Pantanal, jaguars, big animals), 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:9
# text = The Pantanal in Brazil is the world's biggest tropical wetland, where jaguars hunt caimans (cousins of crocodiles) and capybaras (giant rodents) and big animals are easier to see than in the rainforest.
# 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): no change
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Pantanal	Pantanal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Brazil	Brazil	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	's	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
10	tropical	tropical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wetland	wetland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
14	jaguars	jaguar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	hunt	hunt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	caimans	caiman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
18	cousins	cousin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	18	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	capybaras	capybara	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
24	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
25	giant	giant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rodents	rodent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	appos	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	big	big	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	animals	animal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	conj	_	_
33	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
34	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	xcomp	_	_
35	than	than	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | the Pantanal in Brazil | the world's biggest tropical wetland |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hunt** | present | jaguars | caimans and capybaras |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caiman=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | big animals |  |  |  |  | easy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **see** | to-infinitive | big animals *not said here* |  |  | the rainforest |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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): no change. **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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