Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 12
Sea otters smash shellfish on a stone laid on the chest and keep a favourite stone in a loose skin pocket under the arm.
Who acts: Sea otters · What happens: smash, lay, keep · To what, where: shellfish, stone, chest, favourite stone, loose skin pocket
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sea lions, seals and otters» 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 (Sea otters), 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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 otters | compound |
| 2 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 smash | nsubj |
| 3 | smash | smash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | shellfish | shellfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smash | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 stone | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 stone | det |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 smash | obl |
| 8 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stone | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 chest | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chest | det |
| 11 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 laid | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 keep | cc |
| 13 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 smash | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 stone | det |
| 15 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stone | amod |
| 16 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 pocket | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pocket | det |
| 19 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pocket | amod |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pocket | compound |
| 21 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 keep | obl | ||
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 24 arm | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 arm | det |
| 24 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pocket | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 smash | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smash | present | Sea otters | shellfish | a stone | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent shellfish=Theme on stone=Destination | |||
| 2 | lay | participle | a stone not said here | the chest | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on chest=Destination | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | Sea otters not said here | a favourite stone | a loose skin pocket under the arm | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in pocket=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, 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:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters.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. 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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