Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 8

Hammerhead sharks have a wide flat head with an eye at each end, which spreads their senses for a better view and more electric sensors, and they sometimes pin stingrays down with it.

Who acts: Hammerhead sharks, wide flat head, sharks · What happens: have, spread, pin down, sense · To what, where: wide flat head, senses, stingrays

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 (Hammerhead sharks, wide flat head, sharks), 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	Hammerhead	hammerhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sharks	compound
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 head	det
5	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 head	amod
6	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 head	amod
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 eye	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 eye	det
10	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 head	nmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eye	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 spreads	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 spreads	nsubj
16	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 head	acl:relcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 senses	nmod:poss
18	senses	sense	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 spreads	obj
19	for	for	ADP	_	22 view	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 view	det
21	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 view	amod
22	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 spreads	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sensors	cc
24	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 sensors	amod
25	electric	electric	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 sensors	amod
26	sensors	sensor	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 view	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pin	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 pin	cc
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pin	nsubj
30	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	31 pin	advmod
31	pin	pin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
32	stingrays	stingray	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 pin	obj
33	down	down	ADV	_	31 pin	advmod
34	with	with	ADP	_	35 it	case
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 pin	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Hammerhead sharks	a wide flat head		with a eye at each end	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	spread	present	a wide flat head	sharks's senses		for a better view and more electric sensors	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sense=Theme
3	pin down	present	sharks = shark	stingrays	with end	down, sometimes property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stingray=Patient with it=Instrument
4	sense		sharks = shark				nom sense «cognition transitive»: poss=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:8.

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 ×3. 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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