The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas, sentence 16
Kingfishers plunge in beak first, and Japan's bullet train was given a kingfisher-shaped nose to make it quieter.
Who acts: Kingfishers · What happens: plunge, give, shape, make · To what, where: bullet train, nose
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon river: pink dolphins, flooded forest, giant fish and piranhas» 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 (Kingfishers), 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 | Kingfishers | kingfisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 plunge | nsubj |
| 2 | plunge | plunge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 beak | case |
| 4 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 plunge | obl |
| 5 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 plunge | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 given | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 given | cc |
| 8 | Japan | Japan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 train | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 Japan | case |
| 10 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 train | compound |
| 11 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 given | aux:pass |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 plunge | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 nose | det |
| 15 | kingfisher | kingfisher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shaped | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 kingfisher | punct |
| 17 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 nose | amod |
| 18 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 given | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 given | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 make | obj |
| 22 | quieter | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 make | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 plunge | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plunge | present | Kingfishers | in beak; first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in beak=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | Japan's bullet train | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient nose=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | nose | quiet property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product |
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:155-the-amazon-river.lesson:16.
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, R8-pos-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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