Finding Nemo: real sharks, anglerfish, pelicans and gulls, sentence 9
The shortfin mako is the fastest shark, reaching about 50 kilometres an hour or more in bursts, and it can leap several metres out of the water.
Who acts: shortfin mako, mako · What happens: be, reach, leap · To what, where: fastest shark, 50 kilometres, bursts, several metres, water
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 (shortfin mako, mako), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mako | det |
| 2 | shortfin | shortfin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mako | compound |
| 3 | mako | mako | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shark | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shark | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 shark | det |
| 6 | fastest | fast | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 shark | amod |
| 7 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reaching | punct |
| 9 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 shark | advcl |
| 10 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 50 | advmod |
| 11 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 kilometres | nummod |
| 12 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reaching | obj |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 hour | det |
| 14 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kilometres | nmod:unmarked |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 more | cc |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 hour | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bursts | case |
| 18 | bursts | burst | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 reaching | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leap | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 leap | cc |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 leap | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 leap | aux |
| 23 | leap | leap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 shark | conj |
| 24 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 metres | amod |
| 25 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 leap | obj |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 water | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 water | det |
| 29 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 leap | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shark | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the shortfin mako | the fastest shark | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reach | gerund | the shortfin mako not said here | 50 kilometres a hour | bursts | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme | |||
| 3 | leap | can | mako | several metres | the water | vn run-51.3.2-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location metre=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:9.
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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