Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 6

Leopard seals are big hunters with powerful jaws and long teeth that catch penguins, and they also eat krill by sieving water through their teeth.

Who acts: Leopard seals, long teeth, penguins · What happens: be, catch, eat, sieve · To what, where: big hunters, penguins, krill, water, teeth

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 (Leopard seals, long teeth, 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	Leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seals	compound
2	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunters	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hunters	cop
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hunters	amod
5	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 jaws	case
7	powerful	powerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 jaws	amod
8	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hunters	nmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 teeth	cc
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 teeth	amod
11	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 jaws	conj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 catch	nsubj
13	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 teeth	acl:relcl
14	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 catch	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eat	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eat	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 eat	nsubj
18	also	also	ADV	_	19 eat	advmod
19	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 catch	conj
20	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eat	obj
21	by	by	SCONJ	_	22 sieving	mark
22	sieving	sieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 eat	advcl
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sieving	obj
24	through	through	ADP	_	26 teeth	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 teeth	nmod:poss
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sieving	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 hunters	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Leopard seals	big hunters		with powerful jaws and long teeth	tree rules
2	catch	present	long teeth	penguins			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penguin=Theme
3	eat	present	penguins = penguin	krill			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient
4	sieve	gerund	penguins = penguin not said here	water	penguins's teeth		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:6.

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): no change. 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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