Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 1

Manta rays fly through the water on wings wider than a car is long and sometimes leap right out of the sea, while dugongs graze on sea grass like underwater cows.

Who acts: Manta rays, car, dugongs · What happens: fly, be, leap, graze · To what, where: water, wings, sea

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» 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 (Manta rays, car, dugongs), 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	Manta	manta	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rays	compound
2	rays	ray	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	nsubj
3	fly	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fly	obl
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 wings	case
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fly	obl
9	wider	wide	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 wings	advmod
10	than	than	SCONJ	_	14 long	mark
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 long	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 long	cop
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wings	acl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 leap	cc
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 leap	advmod
17	leap	leap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 long	conj
18	right	right	ADV	_	22 sea	advmod
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 sea	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sea	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 sea	det
22	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 leap	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 graze	punct
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 graze	mark
25	dugongs	dugong	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 graze	nsubj
26	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 leap	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 grass	case
28	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 grass	compound
29	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 graze	obl
30	like	like	ADP	_	32 cows	case
31	underwater	underwater	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 cows	amod
32	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 graze	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fly	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	fly	present	Manta rays		the water	on wings	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through water=Location
2	is	present	a car	wings not said here		long property	tree rules
3	leap	present	a car not said here		the sea	sometimes property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out sea=Trajectory
4	graze	present	dugongs			like underwater cows; on sea grass	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=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:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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