Whales, sentence 17
Whale poo spreads nutrients that feed plankton, and plankton makes much of Earth's oxygen.
Who acts: Whale poo, nutrients, plankton · What happens: spread, feed, make · To what, where: nutrients, plankton, much
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 poo, nutrients, plankton), 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 poo | compound |
| 2 | poo | poo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spreads | nsubj |
| 3 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nutrients | nutrient | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 spreads | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 feed | nsubj |
| 6 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 nutrients | acl:relcl |
| 7 | plankton | plankton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 feed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 makes | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 makes | cc |
| 10 | plankton | plankton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 makes | nsubj |
| 11 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 spreads | conj |
| 12 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 makes | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 oxygen | case |
| 14 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 oxygen | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 Earth | case |
| 16 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 much | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spreads | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spread | present | Whale poo | nutrients | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location nutrient=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feed | present | nutrients | plankton | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | make | present | plankton | much of Earth's oxygen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset much=Product |
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:17.
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): R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
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