Whales, sentence 15

Orcas, or killer whales, are the biggest kind of dolphin and live in family groups led by older females, who can live to around 80 or 90 and remember where to find food in hard times.

Who acts: Orcas · What happens: be, live, lead, remember, find · To what, where: biggest kind, family groups, food · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Orcas), 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	Orcas	orca	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 kind	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 whales	punct
3	or	or	CCONJ	_	5 whales	cc
4	killer	killer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 whales	compound
5	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Orcas	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Orcas	punct
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kind	det
9	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 kind	amod
10	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 dolphin	case
12	dolphin	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kind	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 live	cc
14	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 kind	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 groups	case
16	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 groups	compound
17	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 live	obl
18	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 groups	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 females	case
20	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 females	amod
21	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 led	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 live	punct
23	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 live	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 live	aux
25	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 live	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 80	case
27	around	around	ADV	_	28 80	advmod
28	80	80	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 live	obl
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 90	cc
30	90	90	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	28 80	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 remember	cc
32	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 live	conj
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 find	advmod
34	to	to	PART	_	35 find	mark
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 remember	ccomp
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 find	obj
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 times	case
38	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 times	amod
39	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 find	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 kind	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Orcas or killer whales	the biggest kind			of dolphin	tree rules
2	live	present	Orcas or killer whales not said here		family groups			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location
3	lead	participle		family groups not said here			by older females	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by female=Destination
4	live	can					to 80	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	remember	infinitive						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	find	to-infinitive		food		time		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic

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:15.

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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