The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 15

Elephant seals are the largest seals and, like other seals, have four flippers; the males have big noses like a short trunk, fight on beaches, and the seals can dive more than a kilometre and a half deep.

Who acts: Elephant seals, males, seals · What happens: be, have, fight, dive · To what, where: largest seals, four flippers, big noses, beaches

This is a sentence of the lesson «The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice» 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 (Elephant seals, males, seals), 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	Elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seals	compound
2	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seals	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seals	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 seals	det
5	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 seals	amod
6	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 seals	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 seals	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 seals	case
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seals	amod
11	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seals	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seals	conj
14	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 flippers	nummod
15	flippers	flipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 have	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 have	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 males	det
18	males	male	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	nsubj
19	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 seals	conj
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 noses	amod
21	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 have	obj
22	like	like	ADP	_	25 trunk	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 trunk	det
24	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 trunk	amod
25	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 noses	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fight	punct
27	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 have	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 beaches	case
29	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fight	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 dive	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 dive	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 seals	det
33	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 dive	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 dive	aux
35	dive	dive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 have	conj
36	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	35 dive	advmod
37	than	than	ADP	_	39 kilometre	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 kilometre	det
39	kilometre	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 more	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 deep	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 half	det
42	half	half	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	43 deep	advmod
43	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dive	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seals	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Elephant seals	the largest seals and other seals			tree rules
2	have	present	Elephant seals not said here	four flippers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flipper=Patient
3	have	present	the males	big noses		like a short trunk	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nose=Patient
4	fight	present	the males not said here		beaches		vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dive	can	the seals				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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:171-the-southern-ocean-blue-whales-colossal-squid-and-life-under-the-ice.lesson:15.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.

See the release 0.4.

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