Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 15
Remoras stick to sharks and rays with a sucker on their heads, and that sucker is really a changed fin.
Who acts: Remoras, sucker · What happens: stick, change, be · To what, where: changed fin
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 (Remoras, sucker), 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 | Remoras | remora | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stick | nsubj |
| 2 | stick | stick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 sharks | case |
| 4 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stick | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rays | cc |
| 6 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sharks | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 sucker | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sucker | det |
| 9 | sucker | sucker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stick | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 heads | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heads | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sucker | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fin | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fin | cc |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 sucker | det |
| 16 | sucker | sucker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fin | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fin | cop |
| 18 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 fin | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fin | det |
| 20 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fin | amod |
| 21 | fin | fin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stick | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stick | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | present | Remoras | to sharks and rays; with a sucker on Remoras's heads | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with sucker=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | change | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | present | that sucker | a changed fin | 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: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): 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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