Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 3

Up at the surface, a pelican scoops fish with a stretchy pouch like a net, and gulls really do squabble for every scrap, even snatching chips from a person's hand.

Who acts: pelican, gulls · What happens: scoop, squabble, snatch · To what, where: fish, chips, hand

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 (pelican, gulls), 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	Up	up	ADV	_	8 scoops	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 surface	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 surface	det
4	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Up	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Up	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pelican	det
7	pelican	pelican	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scoops	nsubj
8	scoops	scoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scoops	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 pouch	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pouch	det
12	stretchy	stretchy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pouch	amod
13	pouch	pouch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fish	nmod
14	like	like	ADP	_	16 net	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 net	det
16	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pouch	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 do	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 do	cc
19	gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 squabble	nsubj
20	really	really	ADV	_	22 squabble	advmod
21	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 squabble	aux
22	squabble	squabble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 scoops	conj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 scrap	case
24	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	25 scrap	det
25	scrap	scrap	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 do	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 snatching	punct
27	even	even	ADV	_	28 snatching	advmod
28	snatching	snatch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 scoops	conj
29	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 snatching	obj
30	from	from	ADP	_	34 hand	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 person	det
32	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hand	nmod:poss
33	's	's	PART	_	32 person	case
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 snatching	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 scoops	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	scoop	present	a pelican		fish		with a stretchy pouch like a net	vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent fish=Destination
2	squabble	present · do-support	gulls					vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	snatch	gerund	a pelican not said here	chips		a person's hand		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent chip=Theme from hand=Source

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:3.

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. 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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