Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 9
The Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh is the biggest mangrove forest in the world, and its Bengal tigers swim between islands and eat fish, crabs and deer.
Who acts: Sundarbans, Bengal tigers · What happens: be, swim, eat · To what, where: biggest mangrove forest, world, islands, fish
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 (Sundarbans, Bengal tigers), 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 | 2 Sundarbans | det |
| 2 | Sundarbans | Sundarbans | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 forest | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 India | case |
| 4 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Sundarbans | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Bangladesh | cc |
| 6 | Bangladesh | Bangladesh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 India | conj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 forest | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 forest | det |
| 9 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 forest | amod |
| 10 | mangrove | mangrove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forest | compound |
| 11 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 forest | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 swim | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 swim | cc |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tigers | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Bengal | Bengal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 tigers | compound |
| 19 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swim | nsubj |
| 20 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 forest | conj |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 islands | case |
| 22 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 swim | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 eat | cc |
| 24 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 swim | conj |
| 25 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 eat | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 crabs | punct |
| 27 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fish | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 deer | cc |
| 29 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fish | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 forest | 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 Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh | the biggest mangrove forest | the world | tree rules | |||
| 2 | swim | present | world's Bengal tigers | islands | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between island=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | world's Bengal tigers not said here | fish and crabs and deer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient |
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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:9.
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): R3-conj-first ×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.
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