Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 10

Some reef sharks can rest on the sea floor and still breathe, and sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years, longer than trees.

Who acts: reef sharks, sharks · What happens: rest, breathe, be · To what, where: sea floor

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 (reef sharks, sharks), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 sharks	det
2	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sharks	compound
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rest	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 rest	aux
5	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 floor	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 floor	det
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 floor	compound
9	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rest	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 breathe	cc
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 breathe	advmod
12	breathe	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rest	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 around	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 around	cc
15	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 around	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 around	aux
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 around	cop
18	around	around	ADV	_	5 rest	conj
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 hundreds	case
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 around	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 millions	case
22	millions	million	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hundreds	nmod
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 years	case
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 millions	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 longer	punct
26	longer	long	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 millions	amod
27	than	than	ADP	_	28 trees	case
28	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 longer	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 rest	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	can	some reef sharks	the sea floor			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on floor=Location
2	breathe	present	some reef sharks not said here		still		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present · perfect	sharks			for hundreds of millions of years; around property	tree rules

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:10.

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. 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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