Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 3

Sizes surprise: a lion's mane jellyfish can trail tentacles longer than a blue whale, and in Australia an earthworm over a metre long gurgles in its burrow loudly enough for people to hear.

Who acts: Sizes, mane jellyfish, people · What happens: surprise, trail, gurgle, hear · To what, where: tentacles, earthworm, Australia

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 (Sizes, mane jellyfish, people), 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	Sizes	size	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 surprise	nsubj
2	surprise	surprise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 surprise	punct
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jellyfish	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 lion	case
7	mane	mane	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 jellyfish	compound
8	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trail	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 trail	aux
10	trail	trail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 surprise	ccomp
11	tentacles	tentacle	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 trail	obj
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 trail	advmod
13	than	than	ADP	_	16 whale	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 whale	det
15	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 whale	amod
16	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 longer	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 gurgles	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 gurgles	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 Australia	case
20	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 gurgles	obl
21	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 earthworm	det
22	earthworm	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gurgles	obl
23	over	over	ADP	_	25 metre	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 metre	det
25	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 long	obl:unmarked
26	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 earthworm	amod
27	gurgles	gurgle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 trail	conj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 burrow	case
29	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 burrow	nmod:poss
30	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gurgles	obl
31	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	27 gurgles	advmod
32	enough	enough	ADV	_	31 loudly	advmod
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	36 hear	mark
34	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 hear	nsubj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 hear	mark
36	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 loudly	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 surprise	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	surprise	present	Sizes				tree rules
2	trail	can	a lion's mane jellyfish	tentacles		long property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tentacle=Theme
3	gurgle	present	a lion's mane jellyfish not said here	a earthworm	Australia	in jellyfish's burrow; loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in australia=Location
4	hear	to-infinitive	people				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:3.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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