Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 13

Pelicans scoop fish and water into their throat pouch, then tip their heads to drain the water before swallowing; a brown pelican's pouch holds about 11 litres, more than its stomach.

Who acts: Pelicans, pouch · What happens: scoop, tip, drain, swallow, hold · To what, where: fish, throat pouch, heads, water, 11 litres

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 (Pelicans, pouch), 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	Pelicans	pelican	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scoop	nsubj
2	scoop	scoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scoop	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 water	cc
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fish	conj
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 pouch	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pouch	nmod:poss
8	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pouch	compound
9	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scoop	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tip	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 tip	advmod
12	tip	tip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 scoop	conj
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 heads	nmod:poss
14	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 tip	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drain	mark
16	drain	drain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 tip	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drain	obj
19	before	before	SCONJ	_	20 swallowing	mark
20	swallowing	swallow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 drain	advcl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 holds	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 pelican	det
23	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 pelican	amod
24	pelican	pelican	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pouch	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 pelican	case
26	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 holds	nsubj
27	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 tip	conj
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 11	advmod
29	11	11	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 litres	nummod
30	litres	litre	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 holds	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 more	punct
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 holds	obj
33	than	than	ADP	_	35 stomach	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 stomach	nmod:poss
35	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 more	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 scoop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	scoop	present	Pelicans	fish and water	fish's throat pouch		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme into pouch=Destination
2	tip	present	Pelicans not said here	fish's heads		then	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
3	drain	to-infinitive	Pelicans not said here	the water			vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent water=Source
4	swallow	gerund	Pelicans not said here				vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	hold	present	a brown pelican's pouch	11 litres			vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent litre=Theme more=Eventuality

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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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