Whales, sentence 3
Cartoon whales shoot a fountain of sea water out of their heads and swallow ships whole; the spout is breath, not a fountain, and the biggest whale of all eats tiny krill only a few centimetres long.
Who acts: Cartoon whales, spout, biggest whale · What happens: shoot, swallow, be, eat · To what, where: fountain, ships, breath, tiny krill
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 (Cartoon whales, spout, biggest 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 | Cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whales | compound |
| 2 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shoot | nsubj |
| 3 | shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fountain | det |
| 5 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoot | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 water | case |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 water | compound |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fountain | nmod |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 heads | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 heads | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 heads | nmod:poss |
| 12 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 water | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swallow | cc |
| 14 | swallow | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shoot | conj |
| 15 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swallow | obj |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 swallow | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 breath | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 spout | det |
| 19 | spout | spout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 breath | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 breath | cop |
| 21 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shoot | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fountain | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 fountain | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 fountain | det |
| 25 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 breath | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 eats | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 eats | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 whale | det |
| 29 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 whale | amod |
| 30 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eats | nsubj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 all | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 whale | nmod |
| 33 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 breath | conj |
| 34 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 krill | amod |
| 35 | krill | krill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eats | obj |
| 36 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 centimetres | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 centimetres | det |
| 38 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 centimetres | amod |
| 39 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 krill | nmod:unmarked |
| 40 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 centimetres | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shoot | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | present | Cartoon whales | a fountain of sea water out tonnes's heads | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fountain=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swallow | present | Cartoon whales not said here | ships | whole property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ship=Patient | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the spout | breath and a fountain | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | eat | present | the biggest whale of all | tiny krill a few centimetres | 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:026-whales.lesson:3.
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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