Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 13
A grey heron stands perfectly still in shallow water, then shoots out its S-shaped neck like a spring to grab a fish or frog.
Who acts: grey heron · What happens: stand, shoot out, grab · To what, where: shallow water, S shaped neck, fish
This is a sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» 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 (grey heron), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 heron | det |
| 2 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heron | amod |
| 3 | heron | heron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | nsubj |
| 4 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | perfectly | perfectly | ADV | _ | 4 stands | advmod |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 stands | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 water | amod |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stands | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shoots | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | _ | 12 shoots | advmod |
| 12 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 stands | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 shoots | compound:prt |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neck | nmod:poss |
| 15 | S | S | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 neck | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 S | punct |
| 17 | shaped | shaped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 neck | amod |
| 18 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shoots | obj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 spring | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 spring | det |
| 21 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shoots | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 grab | mark |
| 23 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 shoots | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fish | det |
| 25 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grab | obj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 frog | cc |
| 27 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fish | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a grey heron | shallow water | still | perfectly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location | ||
| 2 | shoot out | present | a grey heron not said here | water's S shaped neck | then; spring | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme | |||
| 3 | grab | to-infinitive | a grey heron not said here | a fish or frog | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:13.
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, R8-pos-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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