Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 2

Gulls can drink sea water, because glands above their eyes take the salt out of their blood, and the salty water drips out of their nose.

Who acts: Gulls, glands, salty water · What happens: drink, take, drip · To what, where: sea water, salt, blood, nose

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 (Gulls, glands, salty water), 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	Gulls	gull	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drink	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	aux
3	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 water	compound
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drink	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
7	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 take	mark
8	glands	gland	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	nsubj
9	above	above	ADP	_	11 eyes	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 eyes	nmod:poss
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 glands	nmod
12	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drink	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 salt	det
14	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
15	out	out	ADP	_	18 blood	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 blood	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 blood	nmod:poss
18	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 drips	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drips	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 water	det
22	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 water	amod
23	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drips	nsubj
24	drips	drip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 take	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 nose	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 nose	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nose	nmod:poss
28	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drips	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drink	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	drink	can	Gulls	sea water		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	take	present	glands above glands's eyes	the salt	glands's blood	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent salt=Theme out blood=Initial_Location
3	drip	present	the salty water		glands's nose	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out nose=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:223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water.lesson:2.

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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