Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 10

Sharks very rarely bite people; people are not their normal food, and each year people kill many millions of sharks while sharks kill only a handful of people.

Who acts: Sharks, people · What happens: bite, not be, kill · To what, where: people, normal food, many millions, handful

This is a sentence of the lesson «Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls» 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 (Sharks, people), 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	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	nsubj
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 rarely	advmod
3	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	4 bite	advmod
4	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bite	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 food	punct
7	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 food	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 food	cop
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 food	advmod
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 food	nmod:poss
11	normal	normal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 food	amod
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bite	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 kill	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 kill	cc
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	16 year	det
16	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 kill	obl
17	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kill	nsubj
18	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 food	conj
19	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 millions	amod
20	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 kill	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 sharks	case
22	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 millions	nmod
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 kill	mark
24	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 kill	nsubj
25	kill	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 kill	advcl
26	only	only	ADV	_	28 handful	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 handful	det
28	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 kill	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 people	case
30	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 handful	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 bite	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	Sharks	people		rarely property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	not is a	present	people	sharks's normal food			tree rules
3	kill	present	people	many millions of sharks	year		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent million=Theme
4	kill	present	sharks	a handful of people			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=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:134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds.lesson:10.

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 ×3. 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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/134-finding-nemo-real-sharks-anglerfish-and-seabirds/10/