The Southern Ocean: blue whales, colossal squid and life under the ice, sentence 5
Whales are not fish but mammals: they breathe air and feed their babies milk.
Who acts: Whales, fish · What happens: not be, breathe, feed · To what, where: fish, air, babies milk
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 (Whales, fish), 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 | Whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fish | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 fish | advmod |
| 4 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 mammals | cc |
| 6 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fish | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 breathe | punct |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 breathe | nsubj |
| 9 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fish | parataxis |
| 10 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breathe | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 feed | cc |
| 12 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 breathe | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 milk | nmod:poss |
| 14 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 milk | compound |
| 15 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fish | 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 | not is a | present | Whales | fish but mammals | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breathe | present | fish | air | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | present | fish not said here | fish's babies milk | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent milk=Theme |
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:5.
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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