The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth, sentence 1
A walrus climbing out onto the ice is like you hauling yourself out of a swimming pool with two ice picks: it hooks its long tusks into the ice and drags its heavy body up.
Who acts: walrus climbing, climbing · What happens: haul, hook, drag up · To what, where: yourself, swimming pool, long tusks, ice, heavy body
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth» 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 (walrus climbing, climbing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 walrus | det |
| 2 | walrus | walrus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbing | compound |
| 3 | climbing | climbing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hauling | nsubj |
| 4 | out | out | ADV | _ | 3 climbing | advmod |
| 5 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 7 ice | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ice | det |
| 7 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbing | obl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hauling | aux |
| 9 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 hauling | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 hauling | nsubj |
| 11 | hauling | haul | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 12 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 hauling | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 pool | case |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pool | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pool | det |
| 16 | swimming | swimming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pool | compound |
| 17 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hauling | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 picks | case |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 picks | nummod |
| 20 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 picks | compound |
| 21 | picks | pick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hauling | obl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 hooks | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 hooks | nsubj |
| 24 | hooks | hook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hauling | parataxis |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tusks | amod |
| 27 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hooks | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 ice | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ice | det |
| 30 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hooks | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 drags | cc |
| 32 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 hooks | conj |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 body | nmod:poss |
| 34 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 body | amod |
| 35 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 drags | obj |
| 36 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 drags | compound:prt |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 hauling | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | haul | present · progressive | walrus climbing | yourself | a swimming pool | with two ice picks | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme out pool=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | hook | present | climbing | ice's long tusks | the ice | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent tusk=Theme into ice=Destination | |||
| 3 | drag up | present | climbing not said here | ice's heavy body | vn carry-11.4 «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:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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