Rivers, lakes and ponds, sentence 10

Grey herons stand still in shallow water so fish do not notice them, then stab with a sudden strike, and they also raid garden ponds for goldfish.

Who acts: Grey herons, fish · What happens: stand, not notice, stab, raid · To what, where: shallow water, herons, garden ponds

This is a sentence of the lesson «Rivers, lakes and ponds» 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 (Grey herons, fish), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 herons	amod
2	herons	heron	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 stand	nsubj
3	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 stand	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 water	amod
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stand	obl
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 notice	advmod
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 notice	nsubj
10	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 notice	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 notice	advmod
12	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stand	advcl
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 notice	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stab	punct
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stab	advmod
16	stab	stab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 notice	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	20 strike	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 strike	det
19	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 strike	amod
20	strike	strike	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stab	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 raid	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 raid	cc
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 raid	nsubj
24	also	also	ADV	_	25 raid	advmod
25	raid	raid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 stand	conj
26	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ponds	compound
27	ponds	pond	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 raid	obj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 goldfish	case
29	goldfish	goldfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 raid	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	present	Grey herons		shallow water	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
2	not notice	present · do-support	fish	herons = heron				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
3	stab	infinitive	fish not said here			then	with a sudden strike	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with strike=Instrument
4	raid	present	fish	garden ponds			for goldfish	vn investigate-35.4 «NP V NP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent pond=Location for goldfish=Theme

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, 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:biology:010-rivers-lakes-and-ponds.lesson:10.

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. 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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