The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth, sentence 16
The arctic tern makes the longest migration of any animal, flying from the Arctic to Antarctica and back each year, and in a lifetime it may fly as far as to the Moon and back several times.
Who acts: arctic tern, tern, animal · What happens: make, fly, migrate · To what, where: longest migration, Antarctica, Arctic, lifetime
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 (arctic tern, tern, animal), 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 tern | det |
| 2 | arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tern | amod |
| 3 | tern | tern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | nsubj |
| 4 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 migration | det |
| 6 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 migration | amod |
| 7 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 animal | case |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 animal | det |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 migration | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flying | punct |
| 12 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 makes | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Arctic | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Arctic | det |
| 15 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 flying | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Antarctica | case |
| 17 | Antarctica | Antarctica | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 flying | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 back | cc |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 flying | conj |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 makes | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fly | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fly | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 lifetime | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lifetime | det |
| 26 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fly | obl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fly | nsubj |
| 28 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 fly | aux |
| 29 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 makes | conj |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 far | advmod |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 29 fly | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 35 Moon | case |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 as | fixed |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Moon | det |
| 35 | Moon | Moon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 far | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 back | cc |
| 37 | back | back | ADV | _ | 31 far | conj |
| 38 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 times | amod |
| 39 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fly | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the arctic tern | the longest migration of any animal | year | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset migration=Product | |||
| 2 | fly | gerund | the arctic tern not said here | Antarctica | the Arctic | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from arctic=Initial_Location to antarctica=Destination | |||
| 3 | fly | may | tern | a lifetime | time | far property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in lifetime=Location | ||
| 4 | migrate | any animal | nom migration «act intransitive»: of=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:169-the-arctic-ocean-walruses-bowheads-the-400-year-shark-and-the-unicorns-tooth.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): 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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