Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 13

Hammerhead sharks have wide heads with an eye at each end, and they swing their heads from side to side as they search; some gather in big schools near islands.

Who acts: Hammerhead sharks, heads, some · What happens: have, swing, search, gather · To what, where: wide heads, heads, side, big schools

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 (Hammerhead sharks, heads, some), 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	Hammerhead	hammerhead	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sharks	compound
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heads	amod
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 eye	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 eye	det
8	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heads	nmod
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eye	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 swing	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swing	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 swing	nsubj
15	swing	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 heads	nmod:poss
17	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 swing	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 side	case
19	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swing	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 side	case
21	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 side	nmod
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 search	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 search	nsubj
24	search	search	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 swing	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 gather	punct
26	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	27 gather	nsubj
27	gather	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 schools	case
29	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 schools	amod
30	schools	school	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 gather	obl
31	near	near	ADP	_	32 islands	case
32	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 schools	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Hammerhead sharks	wide heads		with a eye at each end	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	swing	present	heads = head	heads's heads	side to side		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent head=Theme from side=Trajectory
3	search	present	heads = head				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
4	gather	present	some		big schools near islands		vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:13.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles/13/