Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 14
An animal that keeps a whole habitat in balance, like the sea otter, is called a keystone species.
Who acts: animal · What happens: keep, call · To what, where: whole habitat, balance, animal · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (animal), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 animal | det |
| 2 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 animal | acl:relcl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 habitat | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 habitat | amod |
| 7 | habitat | habitat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 balance | case |
| 9 | balance | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 otter | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 otter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 otter | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 otter | compound |
| 14 | otter | otter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 balance | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 animal | punct |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 called | aux:pass |
| 17 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 species | det |
| 19 | keystone | keystone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 species | compound |
| 20 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 called | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 called | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | a animal | a whole habitat | balance | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent habitat=Theme in balance=Location | |||
| 2 | call | present · passive | a animal | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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:14.
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): R7-rel-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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