The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours, sentence 3
Waiting while they grow is called cycling the tank.
Who acts: bacteria · What happens: wait, grow, call, cycle · To what, where: tank · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The fish tank: water, gills, heaters and the right neighbours» 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 (bacteria), 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 | Waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 called | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 grow | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 grow | nsubj |
| 4 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Waiting | advcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 called | aux:pass |
| 6 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | cycling | cycle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 called | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tank | det |
| 9 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cycling | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 called | 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 | wait | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | grow | present | bacteria = bacterium | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | present · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | cycle | gerund | the tank | vn vehicle-51.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tank=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:203-the-fish-tank-water-gills-heaters-and-the-right-neighbours.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): 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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