Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 5

Sharks can smell tiny amounts of blood and other substances in water, but the idea that one drop makes them go crazy at once is exaggerated; their nose is only for smelling, not breathing.

Who acts: Sharks, one drop, nose · What happens: smell, make, go, exaggerate, be, not breathe · To what, where: tiny amounts, sharks, idea, blood

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 (Sharks, one drop, nose), 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	Sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 smell	aux
3	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 amounts	amod
5	amounts	amount	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 smell	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 blood	case
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 amounts	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 substances	cc
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 substances	amod
10	substances	substance	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 blood	conj
11	in	in	ADP	_	12 water	case
12	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 substances	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 exaggerated	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 go	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 idea	det
16	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 exaggerated	nsubj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 makes	mark
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 drop	nummod
19	drop	drop	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 makes	nsubj
20	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 idea	acl
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 makes	obj
22	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 makes	xcomp
23	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 go	xcomp
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 once	fixed
25	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	27 exaggerated	advmod
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 exaggerated	aux:pass
27	exaggerated	exaggerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 smell	conj
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 exaggerated	punct
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 nose	nmod:poss
30	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 is	nsubj
31	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 exaggerated	conj
32	only	only	ADV	_	34 smelling	advmod
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 smelling	case
34	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 is	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 breathing	punct
36	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	37 breathing	advmod
37	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	34 smelling	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smell	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smell	can	Sharks	tiny amounts of blood and other substances in water		vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer amount=Stimulus
2	make	present	one drop	sharks = shark		tree rules
3	go	infinitive	sharks = shark not said here		crazy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	exaggerate	present · passive		the idea	once property	tree rules
5	be	present	sharks's nose			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	smell	gerund				vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	not breathe	gerund				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	amount			blood and other substances in water		nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient

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:5.

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): R6-punct-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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