Famous zoos in the USA and the UK, sentence 13
The Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta is one of the largest aquariums in the world; its main tank holds millions of litres and keeps whale sharks and manta rays, though critics say even it is too small for whale sharks, which swim across whole oceans.
Who acts: Georgia Aquarium, main tank, critics, tank, whale sharks · What happens: be, hold, keep, say, swim · To what, where: one, millions, whale sharks, whole oceans · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Famous zoos in the USA and the UK» 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 (Georgia Aquarium, main tank, critics, tank), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Aquarium | det |
| 2 | Georgia | Georgia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Aquarium | compound |
| 3 | Aquarium | Aquarium | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 one | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Atlanta | case |
| 5 | Atlanta | Atlanta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Aquarium | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 aquariums | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 aquariums | det |
| 10 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 aquariums | amod |
| 11 | aquariums | aquarium | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 aquariums | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 holds | punct |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tank | nmod:poss |
| 17 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tank | amod |
| 18 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 holds | nsubj |
| 19 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | parataxis |
| 20 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 holds | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 litres | case |
| 22 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 millions | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 keeps | cc |
| 24 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 holds | conj |
| 25 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sharks | compound |
| 26 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 keeps | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 rays | cc |
| 28 | manta | manta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rays | compound |
| 29 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sharks | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 say | punct |
| 31 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 33 say | mark |
| 32 | critics | critic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 say | nsubj |
| 33 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 holds | advcl |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 38 small | advmod |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 small | nsubj |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 small | cop |
| 37 | too | too | ADV | _ | 38 small | advmod |
| 38 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 say | ccomp |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 sharks | case |
| 40 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sharks | compound |
| 41 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 small | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 swim | punct |
| 43 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 swim | nsubj |
| 44 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 sharks | acl:relcl |
| 45 | across | across | ADP | _ | 47 oceans | case |
| 46 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 oceans | amod |
| 47 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 swim | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta | one | of the largest aquariums in the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | present | world's main tank | millions of litres | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | world's main tank not said here | whale sharks and manta rays | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | critics | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | tank | for whale sharks; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | swim | present | whale sharks | whole oceans | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across ocean=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:116-famous-zoos-in-the-usa-and-the-uk.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): 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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