The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls, sentence 2
When a whale dies and sinks, it is a feast that lasts for years: crabs, hagfish and sleeper sharks eat the meat, and special worms live only on the bones, like a whole town growing round a giant picnic.
Who acts: whale, feast, crabs, special worms, whole town · What happens: die, sink, be, last, eat, live · To what, where: feast, meat, bones
This is a sentence of the lesson «The deep dark: anglerfish, giant squid, blobfish and whale falls» 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, feast, crabs, special worms), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 4 dies | mark |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dies | nsubj |
| 4 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feast | advcl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 sinks | cc |
| 6 | sinks | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dies | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dies | punct |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feast | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feast | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 feast | det |
| 11 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 lasts | nsubj |
| 13 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feast | acl:relcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 years | case |
| 15 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lasts | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 crabs | punct |
| 17 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hagfish | punct |
| 19 | hagfish | hagfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 crabs | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sleeper | cc |
| 21 | sleeper | sleeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hagfish | conj |
| 22 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eat | nsubj |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 feast | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 meat | det |
| 25 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 eat | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 live | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 live | cc |
| 28 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 worms | amod |
| 29 | worms | worm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 live | nsubj |
| 30 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 eat | conj |
| 31 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 bones | advmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 bones | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bones | det |
| 34 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 live | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 town | punct |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 39 town | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 town | det |
| 38 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 town | amod |
| 39 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 live | obl |
| 40 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 town | acl |
| 41 | round | round | ADP | _ | 44 picnic | case |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 picnic | det |
| 43 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 picnic | amod |
| 44 | picnic | picnic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 growing | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 feast | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present | a whale | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | sink | present | a whale not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | whale | a feast | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | last | present | a feast | year | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | eat | present | crabs and hagfish and sleeper | the meat | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | ||||
| 6 | live | present | special worms | the bones | like a whole town | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on bone=Location | |||
| 7 | grow | gerund | a whole town not said here | round a giant picnic | vn appear-48.1.1 «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:176-the-deep-dark-anglerfish-giant-squid-blobfish-and-whale-falls.lesson:2.
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 ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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