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The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 15

Belugas are white Arctic whales that whistle and chirp, called «sea canaries»; many people now think whales should not live in tanks, and some belugas were moved to a sea sanctuary.

Who acts: Belugas, white Arctic whales, many people, whales · What happens: be, whistle, chirp, call, think, not live · To what, where: white Arctic whales, sea canaries, tanks, belugas, sea sanctuary · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» 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 (Belugas, white Arctic whales, many people, whales), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

nsubjcopamodamodnsubjacl:relclccconjpunctaclpunctcompoundxcomppunctpunctamodnsubjadvmodparataxisnsubjauxadvmodccompcaseoblpunctccdetnsubj:passaux:passconjcasedetcompoundoblpunctrootBelugasNOUNareAUXwhiteADJArcticADJwhalesNOUNthatPRONwhistleVERBandCCONJchirpVERB,PUNCTcalledVERB«PUNCTseaNOUNcanariesNOUN»PUNCT;PUNCTmanyADJpeopleNOUNnowADVthinkVERBwhalesNOUNshouldAUXnotPARTliveVERBinADPtanksNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsomeDETbelugasNOUNwereAUXmovedVERBtoADPaDETseaNOUNsanctuaryNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BelugasbelugaNOUNNumber=Plur5 whalesnsubj
2arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 whalescop
3whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos5 whalesamod
4ArcticarcticADJDegree=Pos5 whalesamod
5whaleswhaleNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
6thatthatPRONPronType=Rel7 whistlensubj
7whistlewhistleVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 whalesacl:relcl
8andandCCONJ_9 chirpcc
9chirpchirpVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin7 whistleconj
10,,PUNCT_11 calledpunct
11calledcallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 whalesacl
12««PUNCT_14 canariespunct
13seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing14 canariescompound
14canariescanaryNOUNNumber=Plur11 calledxcomp
15»»PUNCT_14 canariespunct
16;;PUNCT_18 peoplepunct
17manymanyADJDegree=Pos18 peopleamod
18peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur20 thinknsubj
19nownowADV_20 thinkadvmod
20thinkthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 whalesparataxis
21whaleswhaleNOUNNumber=Plur24 livensubj
22shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin24 liveaux
23notnotPARTPolarity=Neg24 liveadvmod
24liveliveVERBVerbForm=Inf20 thinkccomp
25ininADP_26 tankscase
26tankstankNOUNNumber=Plur24 liveobl
27,,PUNCT_32 movedpunct
28andandCCONJ_32 movedcc
29somesomeDETPronType=Ind30 belugasdet
30belugasbelugaNOUNNumber=Plur32 movednsubj:pass
31werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin32 movedaux:pass
32movedmoveVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass20 thinkconj
33totoADP_36 sanctuarycase
34aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art36 sanctuarydet
35seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing36 sanctuarycompound
36sanctuarysanctuaryNOUNNumber=Sing32 movedobl
37..PUNCT_5 whalespunct

Pragmatics

form
statement
act
narrate
voice
narrator
polarity
none
teacher
kept the draft
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentBelugaswhite Arctic whalestree rules
2whistlepresentwhite Arctic whalesvn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3chirppresentwhite Arctic whales not said herevn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4callparticiplewhite Arctic whales not said heresea canariesvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5think speech: otherpresentmany peoplenowvn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6not liveshouldwhalestanksvn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Location
7movepast · passivesome belugasa sea sanctuaryvn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to sanctuary=Trajectory

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:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.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): R6-punct-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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