Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 14

Gulls are bold, noisy birds that eat almost anything, steal food from each other and from people, and are more likely to grab food that a person is holding or looking at.

Who acts: Gulls, noisy birds, person · What happens: be, eat, steal, grab, hold, look · To what, where: anything, food, each

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 (Gulls, noisy birds, person), 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	Gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bold	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 bold	cop
3	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 birds	punct
5	noisy	noisy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 bold	parataxis
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 eat	nsubj
8	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 birds	acl:relcl
9	almost	almost	ADV	_	10 anything	advmod
10	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 eat	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 steal	punct
12	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 eat	conj
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 steal	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	12 steal	obl
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 each	fixed
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 people	cc
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 people	case
19	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 each	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 likely	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 likely	cc
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 likely	cop
23	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	24 likely	advmod
24	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bold	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 grab	mark
26	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 likely	xcomp
27	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grab	obj
28	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 holding	obj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 person	det
30	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 holding	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 holding	aux
32	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 food	acl:relcl
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	34 looking	cc
34	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 holding	conj
35	at	at	ADP	_	34 looking	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bold	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	Gulls			bold property	tree rules
2	eat	present	noisy birds	anything			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient
3	steal	present	noisy birds not said here	food	each		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent food=Theme from each=Source
4	is	present	Gulls not said here			likely property	tree rules
5	grab	to-infinitive	Gulls not said here	food			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
6	hold	present · progressive	a person	food			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme
7	look	gerund	a person not said here				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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:14.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R6-punct-agree ×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.

See the release 0.4.

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