Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 7
A clam from Iceland named Ming lived about five hundred and seven years, worked out by counting the growth rings on its shell.
Who acts: clam · What happens: name, live, work out, count · To what, where: clam, growth rings, shell
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 (clam), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 clam | det |
| 2 | clam | clam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Iceland | case |
| 4 | Iceland | Iceland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 clam | nmod |
| 5 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 clam | acl |
| 6 | Ming | Ming | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 named | xcomp |
| 7 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 13 years | advmod |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 hundred | compound |
| 10 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 years | cc |
| 12 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lived | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 worked | punct |
| 15 | worked | work | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 lived | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 worked | compound:prt |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 counting | mark |
| 18 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 worked | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rings | det |
| 20 | growth | growth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rings | compound |
| 21 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 counting | obj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 shell | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 shell | nmod:poss |
| 24 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 counting | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lived | 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 | name | participle | a clam from Iceland not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | live | past | a clam from Iceland | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | work out | participle | a clam from Iceland not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | count | gerund | a clam from Iceland not said here | the growth rings | clam's shell | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:7.
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. 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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