Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 4
The whale shark is the largest fish in the world, about as long as a bus; it eats tiny drifting food, and each one has a pattern of spots as unique as a fingerprint.
Who acts: whale shark, shark, tiny food, one, spots · What happens: be, eat, drift, have, pattern · To what, where: largest fish, world, tiny food, pattern
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 (whale shark, shark, tiny food, one), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shark | det |
| 2 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shark | compound |
| 3 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fish | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 6 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 fish | amod |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 long | punct |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 fish | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 bus | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bus | det |
| 17 | bus | bus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 long | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 eats | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 eats | nsubj |
| 20 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fish | parataxis |
| 21 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 food | amod |
| 22 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 food | acl |
| 23 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eats | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 has | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 has | cc |
| 26 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | nsubj |
| 28 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 eats | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 pattern | det |
| 30 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 has | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 spots | case |
| 32 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 pattern | nmod |
| 33 | as | as | ADV | _ | 34 unique | advmod |
| 34 | unique | unique | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 pattern | amod |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 fingerprint | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 fingerprint | det |
| 37 | fingerprint | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 unique | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 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 | is a | present | the whale shark | the largest fish | the world | long property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | eat | present | shark | tiny food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 3 | drift | gerund | tiny food not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | have | present | each one | a pattern of spots | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pattern=Patient | ||||
| 5 | pattern | spots | nom pattern «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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:4.
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): R7-rel-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.
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