Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 4

Great white sharks eat fish, seals and dead whales; fat seals give them the energy to swim fast and keep their bodies warmer than the water around them.

Who acts: Great white sharks, fat seals · What happens: eat, give, swim, keep · To what, where: fish, energy, bodies

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 (Great white sharks, fat seals), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	nsubj
4	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eat	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 seals	punct
7	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fish	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 whales	cc
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 whales	amod
10	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fish	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 give	punct
12	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seals	amod
13	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 give	nsubj
14	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 eat	parataxis
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 give	iobj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 energy	det
17	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 give	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 swim	mark
19	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 energy	acl
20	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 swim	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 keep	cc
22	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 swim	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 bodies	nmod:poss
24	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 keep	obj
25	warmer	warm	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 keep	xcomp
26	than	than	ADP	_	28 water	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 water	det
28	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 warmer	obl
29	around	around	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 water	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 eat	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Great white sharks	fish and seals and dead whales			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient
2	give	present	fat seals	the energy	fish		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient energy=Theme
3	swim	to-infinitive	fat seals not said here	the energy not said here		fast property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	keep	infinitive	fat seals not said here	fish's bodies		warm property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=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:4.

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. 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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