Gulls: chip thieves, rain dances and salty water, sentence 7
Gulls can drink salt water, because glands above their eyes remove the salt and it drips out of their nose.
Who acts: Gulls, glands, gull · What happens: drink, remove, drip · To what, where: salt water, salt, 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, 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 | 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 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 water | compound |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drink | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 remove | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 remove | mark |
| 8 | glands | gland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 remove | 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 | remove | remove | 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 remove | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drips | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 drips | nsubj |
| 17 | drips | drip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 remove | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 nose | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 nose | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nose | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drips | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drink | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | can | Gulls | salt water | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remove | present | glands above glands's eyes | the salt | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drip | present | gull | 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: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): 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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