Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 15
Asian small-clawed otters, the smallest otters in the world, juggle pebbles with their paws, perhaps as play or practice for handling food.
Who acts: Asian clawed otters, play · What happens: claw, juggle, handle · To what, where: pebbles, food
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 (Asian clawed otters, play), 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 | Asian | Asian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 otters | amod |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clawed | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 small | punct |
| 4 | clawed | claw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 otters | amod |
| 5 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 juggle | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 otters | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 otters | det |
| 8 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 otters | amod |
| 9 | otters | otter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 otters | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 world | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 otters | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pebbles | punct |
| 14 | juggle | juggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 juggle | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 paws | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 paws | nmod:poss |
| 18 | paws | paw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 juggle | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 play | punct |
| 20 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 22 play | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 play | case |
| 22 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 juggle | obl |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 practice | cc |
| 24 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 play | conj |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 handling | mark |
| 26 | handling | handle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 play | acl |
| 27 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 handling | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 juggle | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claw | participle | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | juggle | present | Asian clawed otters | pebbles | with otters's paws; as play or practice | tree rules | |||
| 3 | handle | gerund | play or practice not said here | food | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=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:100-sea-lions-seals-and-otters.lesson:15.
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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