Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest, sentence 8

The sailfish is one of the fastest fish, uses its long thin body and sail to hunt, and changes colour when hunting in groups.

Who acts: sailfish · What happens: be, use, hunt, change · To what, where: one, long thin body, colour, groups

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest» 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 (sailfish), 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 sailfish	det
2	sailfish	sailfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 fish	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
7	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	8 fish	amod
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 uses	punct
10	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	conj
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 body	nmod:poss
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 body	amod
13	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 body	amod
14	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 uses	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sail	cc
16	sail	sail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 body	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 hunt	mark
18	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 body	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 changes	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 changes	cc
21	changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 uses	conj
22	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 changes	obj
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 hunting	advmod
24	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 changes	advcl
25	in	in	ADP	_	26 groups	case
26	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hunting	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the sailfish	one		of the fastest fish	tree rules
2	use	present	the sailfish not said here	sailfish's long thin body and sail			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
3	hunt	to-infinitive	the sailfish not said here	sailfish's long thin body and sail not said here			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	change	present	the sailfish not said here	colour			vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Patient
5	hunt	gerund	the sailfish not said here		groups		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location

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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:8.

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): R6-punct-agree ×2, 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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