Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 0
The loudest animal is not a lion but a sperm whale clicking in the deep sea, and one of the noisiest is a shrimp no longer than your finger that snaps its claw with a bang like a cap gun.
Who acts: loudest animal, lion, one, finger · What happens: not be, click, be, snap · To what, where: lion, deep sea, shrimp, claw
This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 (loudest animal, lion, one, finger), 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 | 3 animal | det |
| 2 | loudest | loud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 animal | amod |
| 3 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lion | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lion | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 lion | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lion | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 whale | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 whale | det |
| 10 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 whale | compound |
| 11 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lion | conj |
| 12 | clicking | click | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lion | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sea | det |
| 15 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sea | amod |
| 16 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clicking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 shrimp | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 shrimp | cc |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 shrimp | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 noisiest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 noisiest | det |
| 22 | noisiest | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 shrimp | cop |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 shrimp | det |
| 25 | shrimp | shrimp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lion | conj |
| 26 | no | no | ADV | _ | 27 longer | advmod |
| 27 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 shrimp | advmod |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 finger | case |
| 29 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 finger | nmod:poss |
| 30 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 longer | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 snaps | nsubj |
| 32 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 finger | acl:relcl |
| 33 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 claw | nmod:poss |
| 34 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 snaps | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 bang | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 bang | det |
| 37 | bang | bang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 snaps | obl |
| 38 | like | like | ADP | _ | 41 gun | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 gun | det |
| 40 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 gun | compound |
| 41 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bang | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lion | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the loudest animal | a lion but a sperm whale and a shrimp | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | click | gerund | a lion but a sperm whale and a shrimp not said here | the deep sea | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | one of the noisiest | a shrimp | long property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | snap | present | your finger | animal's claw | with a bang like a cap gun | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent claw=Patient with bang=Instrument |
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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:0.
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): no change. 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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