--- title: The Yangtze finless porpoise has a low ridge with tiny bumps instead… — China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the… · tree and pragmatics description: The Yangtze finless porpoise has a low ridge with tiny bumps instead of a back fin and is the only porpoise that lives in fresh water. Who acts: Yangtze finless porpoise, only porpoise. 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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 (Yangtze finless porpoise, only porpoise), 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:9 # text = The Yangtze finless porpoise has a low ridge with tiny bumps instead of a back fin and is the only porpoise that lives in fresh water. # 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 ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 Yangtze yangtze PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 compound _ _ 3 finless finless NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 compound _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:amod|HaikuPos=ADJ:JJ:Degree=Pos 4 porpoise porpoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 has have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 ridge ridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 tiny tiny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 bumps bump NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nmod _ _ 12 instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 16 case _ _ 13 of of ADP IN _ 12 fixed _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 back back NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 fin fin NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 cop _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 porpoise porpoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 21 acl:relcl _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 fresh fresh ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 5 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** | present | the Yangtze finless porpoise | a low ridge | | | | with tiny bumps; instead a back fin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient | | 2 | **is a** | present | the Yangtze finless porpoise *not said here* | the only porpoise | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **live** | present | the only porpoise | | | fresh water | | | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location | 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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