Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures, sentence 16
Spotted eagle rays flap wing-like fins to fly through the water and sometimes leap out of it; rays are flat relatives of sharks with skeletons of cartilage (the bendy stuff in your ear), not bone.
Who acts: Spotted eagle rays, rays · What happens: spot, flap, fly, leap out, be · To what, where: wing fins, water, flat relatives
This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real blue tangs, sea turtles and reef creatures» 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 (Spotted eagle rays, rays), 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 | Spotted | spot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rays | amod |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rays | compound |
| 3 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flap | nsubj |
| 4 | flap | flap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fins | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fins | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 fins | case |
| 8 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flap | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fly | mark |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 flap | advcl |
| 11 | through | through | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 water | det |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fly | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 leap | cc |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 leap | advmod |
| 16 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fly | conj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 leap | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 relatives | punct |
| 21 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 relatives | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 relatives | cop |
| 23 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 relatives | amod |
| 24 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flap | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sharks | case |
| 26 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 relatives | nmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 skeletons | case |
| 28 | skeletons | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 sharks | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 cartilage | case |
| 30 | cartilage | cartilage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 skeletons | nmod |
| 31 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 34 stuff | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stuff | det |
| 33 | bendy | bendy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stuff | amod |
| 34 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cartilage | appos |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 ear | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 ear | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 stuff | nmod |
| 38 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 34 stuff | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 bone | punct |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 bone | advmod |
| 41 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cartilage | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flap | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | participle | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||||
| 2 | flap | present | Spotted eagle rays | wing fins | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fin=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fly | to-infinitive | Spotted eagle rays not said here | the water | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Location | ||||
| 4 | leap out | infinitive | Spotted eagle rays not said here | water | sometimes property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | is a | present | rays | flat relatives | of sharks with skeletons of cartilage and bone | tree rules |
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:133-finding-nemo-dory-turtles-and-the-reef.lesson:16.
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): R7-rel-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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