Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 12
The vaquita, a porpoise in Mexico, is the rarest sea mammal; around ten were reported in recent surveys.
Who acts: vaquita · What happens: be, report · To what, where: rarest sea mammal, ten, recent surveys
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 (vaquita), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 vaquita | det |
| 2 | vaquita | vaquita | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mammal | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 porpoise | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 porpoise | det |
| 5 | porpoise | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 vaquita | appos |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 Mexico | case |
| 7 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 porpoise | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 vaquita | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 mammal | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mammal | det |
| 11 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 mammal | amod |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mammal | compound |
| 13 | mammal | mammal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 reported | punct |
| 15 | around | around | ADV | _ | 16 ten | advmod |
| 16 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 reported | aux:pass |
| 18 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 mammal | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 surveys | case |
| 20 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 surveys | amod |
| 21 | surveys | survey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 reported | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 mammal | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the vaquita | the rarest sea mammal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | report | past · passive | ten | recent surveys | vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:027-dolphins-porpoises-and-seals.lesson:12.
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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