Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 1

Almost everything there depends on krill, small shrimp-like animals that swarm in such numbers that they can colour the sea pink, and penguins, seals, fish and the biggest whales all eat them.

Who acts: everything, small like animals, animals, penguins · What happens: depend, swarm, colour, eat · To what, where: such numbers, sea pink, animals

This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 (everything, small like animals, animals, penguins), 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	Almost	almost	ADV	_	2 everything	advmod
2	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 depends	nsubj
3	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 depends	advmod
4	depends	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 krill	case
6	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 depends	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 krill	punct
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animals	amod
9	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 like	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 shrimp	punct
11	like	like	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 animals	amod
12	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 krill	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 swarm	nsubj
14	swarm	swarm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 animals	acl:relcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 numbers	case
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 numbers	amod
17	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 swarm	obl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 colour	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 colour	nsubj
20	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 colour	aux
21	colour	colour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 swarm	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 pink	det
23	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 pink	compound
24	pink	pink	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 colour	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 eat	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 penguins	cc
27	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 eat	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seals	punct
29	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 penguins	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 fish	punct
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 penguins	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 whales	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 whales	det
34	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 whales	amod
35	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 penguins	conj
36	all	all	ADV	_	37 eat	advmod
37	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 depends	conj
38	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 eat	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 depends	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	depend	present	everything		there	on krill small like animals	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on krill=Theme
2	swarm	present	small like animals		such numbers		vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location
3	colour	can	animals = animal	the sea pink			tree rules
4	eat	present	penguins and seals and fish and the biggest whales	animals = animal		all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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