Sea lions, seals and otters, sentence 8
Many zoos have stopped tricks like ball balancing and show natural behaviour instead.
Who acts: Many zoos · What happens: stop, show · To what, where: tricks, natural behaviour
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 (Many zoos), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 zoos | amod |
| 2 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stopped | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | aux |
| 4 | stopped | stop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stopped | obj |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 balancing | case |
| 7 | ball | ball | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 balancing | compound |
| 8 | balancing | balance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tricks | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 show | cc |
| 10 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stopped | conj |
| 11 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 behaviour | amod |
| 12 | behaviour | behaviour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 show | obj |
| 13 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 10 show | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | present · perfect | Many zoos | tricks | like ball balancing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality trick=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | show | present | Many zoos not said here | natural behaviour | instead property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent behaviour=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:8.
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): no change. 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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