--- title: The baiji had tiny eyes and was almost blind in the muddy river; it… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: The baiji had tiny eyes and was almost blind in the muddy river; it found fish by sending clicks and listening for echoes, and ship engine noise may have drowned these out. Who acts: baiji, engine noise. 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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 (baiji, engine noise), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:14 # text = The baiji had tiny eyes and was almost blind in the muddy river; it found fish by sending clicks and listening for echoes, and ship engine noise may have drowned these out. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.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): R7-rel-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 baiji baiji NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 almost almost ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 conj _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 muddy muddy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 15 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 17 fish fish NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 19 sending send VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 16 advcl _ _ 20 clicks click NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 listening listen VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 23 for for ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 echoes echo NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 25 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 27 ship ship NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 engine engine NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 compound _ _ 29 noise noise NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 32 aux _ _ 31 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 32 aux _ _ 32 drowned drown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:parataxis 33 these this PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 32 obj _ _ 34 out out ADP RP _ 32 compound:prt _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 3 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 | **have** | past | the baiji | tiny eyes | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | | 2 | **is** | past | the baiji *not said here* | | | the muddy river | | almost, blind *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **find** | past | baiji | fish | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Topic | | 4 | **send** | gerund | baiji *not said here* | clicks | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent click=Theme | | 5 | **listen** | gerund | baiji *not said here* | | | | | for echoes | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for echo=Theme | | 6 | **drown out** | may · perfect | engine noise | these | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=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. 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