Rivers, lakes and ponds, sentence 16
Freshwater mussels filter and clean river water as they feed, pearl mussels can live over 100 years, and their babies spend their first months on the gills of salmon or trout.
Who acts: Freshwater mussels, mussels, pearl mussels, babies · What happens: filter, clean, feed, live, spend · To what, where: river water, gills
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 (Freshwater mussels, mussels, pearl mussels, babies), 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 | Freshwater | freshwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mussels | compound |
| 2 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 filter | nsubj |
| 3 | filter | filter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 clean | cc |
| 5 | clean | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 filter | conj |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 water | compound |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 clean | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 feed | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 feed | nsubj |
| 10 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feed | punct |
| 12 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mussels | compound |
| 13 | mussels | mussel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 live | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | aux |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 filter | parataxis |
| 16 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 years | case |
| 17 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 live | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 spend | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 spend | cc |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 babies | nmod:poss |
| 22 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spend | nsubj |
| 23 | spend | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 live | parataxis |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 months | nmod:poss |
| 25 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 months | amod |
| 26 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spend | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 gills | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gills | det |
| 29 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 spend | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 salmon | case |
| 31 | salmon | salmon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gills | nmod |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 trout | cc |
| 33 | trout | trout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 salmon | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filter | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | filter | present | Freshwater mussels | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | clean | present | Freshwater mussels not said here | river water | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 3 | feed | present | mussels = mussel | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | live | can | pearl mussels | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spend | present | mussels's babies | month | on the gills of salmon or trout goal | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent on gill=Goal |
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:16.
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 ×2, 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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