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title: The Armadillos' «turbid Amazon» is the Amazon in South America (turb… — The map of the Just So Stories: from the North A… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Armadillos' «turbid Amazon» is the Amazon in South America (turbid means muddy); it carries more water than any other river on Earth and flows through the biggest rainforest in the world. Who acts: Amazon », turbid, ». A sentence of the lesson «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atla
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# The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey, sentence 12

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The Armadillos' «turbid Amazon» is the Amazon in South America (turbid means muddy); it carries more water than any other river on Earth and flows through the biggest rainforest in the world.

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**Who acts:** Amazon », turbid, » · **What happens:** be, mean, carry, flow · **To what, where:** Amazon, South America, more water, biggest rainforest

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The map of the Just So Stories: from the North Atlantic to the Limpopo, the Amazon and Surrey» of the geography 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 (Amazon », turbid, »), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:geography:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:12
# text = The Armadillos' «turbid Amazon» is the Amazon in South America (turbid means muddy); it carries more water than any other river on Earth and flows through the biggest rainforest in the world.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = geography
# lesson = 061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Armadillos	armadillo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod:poss	_	_
3	'	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	«	«	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	_
5	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:amod
6	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	»	»	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Amazon	amazon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	South	South	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	America	America	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
15	turbid	turbid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nsubj	_	_
16	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
17	muddy	muddy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	23	amod	_	_
23	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
26	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Earth	Earth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	flows	flow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	biggest	big	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	35	amod	_	_
35	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21: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 | **is a** | present | the Armadillos's Amazon » | the Amazon |  | South America |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | present | turbid |  |  |  |  | muddy *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **carry** | present | » | more water |  |  |  | than any other river on Earth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme |
| 4 | **flow** | present | » *not said here* |  |  | the biggest rainforest in the world |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through rainforest=Location |

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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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**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:geography:061-the-map-of-the-just-so-stories-from-the-north-atlantic-to-the-limpopo-and-surrey.lesson:12`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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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