Bears, sentence 6
Polar bears are excellent swimmers that can swim for hours or even days between pieces of sea ice, and scientists class them as marine mammals.
Who acts: Polar bears, excellent swimmers, scientists · What happens: be, swim, class · To what, where: excellent swimmers, pieces
This is a sentence of the lesson «Bears» 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 (Polar bears, excellent swimmers, scientists), 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 | Polar | polar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 bears | amod |
| 2 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swimmers | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimmers | cop |
| 4 | excellent | excellent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 swimmers | amod |
| 5 | swimmers | swimmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 swim | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 swim | aux |
| 8 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 swimmers | acl:relcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 hours | case |
| 10 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 swim | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 days | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 days | advmod |
| 13 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hours | conj |
| 14 | between | between | ADP | _ | 15 pieces | case |
| 15 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 swim | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 ice | case |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ice | compound |
| 18 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pieces | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 class | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 class | cc |
| 21 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 class | nsubj |
| 22 | class | class | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 swimmers | conj |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 class | obj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 mammals | case |
| 25 | marine | marine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 mammals | amod |
| 26 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 class | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 swimmers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Polar bears | excellent swimmers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swim | can | excellent swimmers | pieces of sea ice | hour | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between piece=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | class | present | scientists | pieces = piece | as marine mammals goal | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent they=Theme as mammal=Goal |
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:023-bears.lesson:6.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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