Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 11
Porpoises are smaller cousins of dolphins with rounded heads, no long beak and spade-shaped teeth.
Who acts: Porpoises · What happens: be, round, shape · To what, where: smaller cousins
This is a sentence of the lesson «Dolphins, porpoises and seals» 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 (Porpoises), 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 | Porpoises | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cousins | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cousins | cop |
| 3 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 cousins | amod |
| 4 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dolphins | case |
| 6 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 cousins | nmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 heads | case |
| 8 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 heads | amod |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dolphins | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beak | punct |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 beak | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 beak | amod |
| 13 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heads | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 teeth | cc |
| 15 | spade | spade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shaped | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 spade | punct |
| 17 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 teeth | amod |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 beak | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cousins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Porpoises | smaller cousins | of dolphins with rounded heads and no long beak and shaped teeth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | round | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.
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