Rivers, lakes and ponds, sentence 7

Atlantic salmon grow big at sea, then swim up the river where they hatched to lay their eggs, finding it by smell; they stop eating on the way and live on the fat built up at sea, and they can leap over 3 metres to climb waterfalls.

Who acts: Atlantic salmon, salmon · What happens: grow, swim up, hatch, lay, find, stop · To what, where: sea, river, eggs, water, way, fat

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 (Atlantic salmon, salmon), 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	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 salmon	compound
2	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grow	nsubj
3	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grow	xcomp
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sea	case
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 grow	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 swim	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 swim	advmod
9	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 swim	compound:prt
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swim	obl
13	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 hatched	advmod
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 hatched	nsubj
15	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 river	acl:relcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 lay	mark
17	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 hatched	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eggs	nmod:poss
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lay	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 finding	punct
21	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 hatched	advcl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 finding	obj
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 smell	case
24	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 finding	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 stop	punct
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stop	nsubj
27	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 grow	conj
28	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 stop	xcomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 way	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 way	det
31	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 eating	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 live	cc
33	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 stop	conj
34	on	on	ADP	_	36 fat	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 fat	det
36	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 live	obl
37	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 fat	acl
38	up	up	ADP	_	37 built	compound:prt
39	at	at	ADP	_	40 sea	case
40	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 built	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 leap	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 leap	cc
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 leap	nsubj
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 leap	aux
45	leap	leap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 grow	conj
46	over	over	ADP	_	48 metres	case
47	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	48 metres	nummod
48	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 leap	obl
49	to	to	PART	_	50 climb	mark
50	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 leap	advcl
51	waterfalls	waterfall	NOUN	Number=Plur	50 climb	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	Atlantic salmon		sea		big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sea=Location
2	swim up	present	Atlantic salmon not said here	the river		then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hatch	past	salmon					vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient
4	lay	to-infinitive	salmon not said here	salmon's eggs				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
5	find	gerund	salmon not said here	water			by smell	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
6	stop	present	salmon					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	eat	gerund	salmon not said here		the way			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	live	present	salmon not said here		the fat			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location
9	build up	participle		the fat not said here	sea			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
10	leap	can	salmon		3 metres			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over metre=Trajectory
11	climb	to-infinitive	salmon not said here	waterfalls				vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location waterfall=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:7.

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, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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