The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures, sentence 11
The blue whale, the biggest animal ever, eats tiny krill, up to several tonnes a day.
Who acts: blue whale · What happens: eat · To what, where: tiny krill
This is a sentence of the lesson «The microscopic world: tardigrades, mites, plankton and other tiny creatures» 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 (blue whale), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 whale | amod |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eats | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 animal | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animal | det |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 animal | amod |
| 7 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whale | appos |
| 8 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 animal | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 animal | punct |
| 10 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 krill | amod |
| 12 | krill | krill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eats | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tonnes | punct |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 tonnes | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 up | fixed |
| 16 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 tonnes | amod |
| 17 | tonnes | tonne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eats | obl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tonnes | nmod:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 eats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | the blue whale | tiny krill | up several tonnes a day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient |
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:259-the-microscopic-world-tardigrades-mites-plankton-and-other-tiny-creatures.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): 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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