Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 6
Dugongs are sea cows that graze on sea grass, and sailors long ago may have mistaken dugongs and manatees for mermaids.
Who acts: Dugongs, sea cows, sailors · What happens: be, graze, mistake · To what, where: sea cows, dugongs
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 (Dugongs, sea cows, sailors), 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 | Dugongs | dugong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cows | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cows | cop |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cows | compound |
| 4 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 graze | nsubj |
| 6 | graze | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cows | acl:relcl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 8 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grass | compound |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 graze | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mistaken | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 cows | cc |
| 12 | sailors | sailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mistaken | nsubj |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 ago | advmod |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 mistaken | advmod |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 mistaken | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 mistaken | aux |
| 17 | mistaken | mistake | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 cows | conj |
| 18 | dugongs | dugong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mistaken | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 manatees | cc |
| 20 | manatees | manatee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dugongs | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 mermaids | case |
| 22 | mermaids | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 mistaken | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cows | 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 | Dugongs | sea cows | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | graze | present | sea cows | on sea grass | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on grass=Patient | ||||
| 3 | mistake | may · perfect | sailors | dugongs and manatees | for mermaids; ago 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:6.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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