Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 15
Many reef fish in the film are hard to keep in tanks, needing lots of space, stable clean salt water and the right food; Gill's kind, the Moorish idol, is one of the hardest to keep alive.
Who acts: Many reef fish · What happens: be, keep, need · To what, where: tanks, lots, one
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 (Many reef fish), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 2 | reef | reef | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | compound |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hard | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 film | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 film | det |
| 6 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fish | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hard | cop |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hard | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tanks | case |
| 12 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keep | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 needing | punct |
| 14 | needing | need | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hard | conj |
| 15 | lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 needing | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 space | case |
| 17 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lots | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 water | punct |
| 19 | stable | stable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 20 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 21 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | compound |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lots | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 food | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 food | det |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 food | amod |
| 26 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 hard | punct |
| 28 | Gill | Gill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 kind | nmod:poss |
| 29 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 28 Gill | case |
| 30 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hard | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 idol | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 idol | det |
| 33 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 idol | amod |
| 34 | idol | idol | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 kind | appos |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 one | punct |
| 36 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 one | cop |
| 37 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 hard | parataxis |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 hardest | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 hardest | det |
| 40 | hardest | hard | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 one | nmod |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 keep | mark |
| 42 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 hardest | acl |
| 43 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 keep | xcomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hard | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many reef fish in the film | hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Many reef fish in the film not said here | tanks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in tank=Location | ||||
| 3 | need | gerund | Many reef fish in the film not said here | lots of space and stable clean salt water and the right food | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot lot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | one | of the hardest | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | alive property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:15.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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