Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 11
A gull drops a shellfish onto rocks from a height to smash the shell open.
Who acts: gull · What happens: drop, smash · To what, where: shellfish, rocks, shell
This is a sentence of the lesson «Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water» 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 (gull), 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 gull | det |
| 2 | gull | gull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drops | nsubj |
| 3 | drops | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shellfish | det |
| 5 | shellfish | shellfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drops | obj |
| 6 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 7 rocks | case |
| 7 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 drops | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 height | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 height | det |
| 10 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drops | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 smash | mark |
| 12 | smash | smash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 drops | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shell | det |
| 14 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smash | obj |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 smash | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drops | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | present | a gull | a shellfish | rocks | from a height | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent shellfish=Theme onto rock=Destination from height=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | smash | to-infinitive | a gull not said here | the shell | open property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=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:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.lesson:11.
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): R5-strong ×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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