The Arctic Ocean: walruses, bowheads, the 400-year shark and the unicorn's tooth, sentence 4

A walrus has two long tusks, and walruses use their tusks like ice picks to pull their heavy bodies out of the water onto the ice.

Who acts: walrus, walruses · What happens: have, use, pull · To what, where: two long tusks, tusks, heavy bodies, water

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, walruses), 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 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 tusks	nummod
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tusks	amod
6	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 use	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 use	cc
9	walruses	walrus	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	nsubj
10	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	conj
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tusks	nmod:poss
12	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 picks	case
14	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 picks	compound
15	picks	pick	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 use	obl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 pull	mark
17	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 use	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 bodies	nmod:poss
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bodies	amod
20	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 pull	obj
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 water	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 water	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 water	det
24	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pull	obl
25	onto	onto	ADP	_	27 ice	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 ice	det
27	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 pull	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	a walrus	two long tusks			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient
2	use	present	walruses	tusks's tusks		like ice picks	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient
3	pull	to-infinitive	walruses not said here	tusks's heavy bodies	the water	onto the ice	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent body=Theme out water=Initial_Location

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:4.

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. 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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