Whales, sentence 13
Whale tails move up and down, while fish tails move side to side, and humpbacks can be recognised by the pattern under their flukes.
Who acts: Whale tails, fish tails, side, pattern · What happens: move up, move, side, recognise · To what, where: side, humpbacks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales» 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 (Whale tails, fish tails, side, pattern), 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 | Whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 tails | compound |
| 2 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 move | nsubj |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 move | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 down | cc |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 up | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 move | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 move | mark |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tails | compound |
| 10 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 move | nsubj |
| 11 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 move | advcl |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 move | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 side | case |
| 14 | side | side | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 side | acl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognised | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 recognised | cc |
| 17 | humpbacks | humpback | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 recognised | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognised | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 recognised | aux:pass |
| 20 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 move | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 pattern | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pattern | det |
| 23 | pattern | pattern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recognised | obl |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 26 flukes | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 flukes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | flukes | fluke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 pattern | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 move | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move up | present | Whale tails | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | move | present | fish tails | side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | side | infinitive | side not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | recognise | can · passive | the pattern under humpbacks's flukes | humpbacks | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus |
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:026-whales.lesson:13.
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 ×3. 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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