Dolphins, porpoises and seals, sentence 9
A bottlenose dolphin has around 80 to 100 cone-shaped teeth, gets only one set for life, and swallows fish whole.
Who acts: bottlenose dolphin · What happens: have, shape, get, swallow · To what, where: 80 shaped teeth, one set, fish
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 (bottlenose dolphin), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dolphin | det |
| 2 | bottlenose | bottlenose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dolphin | compound |
| 3 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | around | around | ADV | _ | 6 80 | advmod |
| 6 | 80 | 80 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 teeth | nummod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 100 | case |
| 8 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 80 | nmod |
| 9 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shaped | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 shaped | punct |
| 11 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 teeth | amod |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gets | punct |
| 14 | gets | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 one | advmod |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 set | nummod |
| 17 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gets | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 swallows | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 swallows | cc |
| 22 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 23 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 swallows | obj |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 swallows | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | 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 | have | present | a bottlenose dolphin | 80 shaped teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | get | present | a bottlenose dolphin not said here | one set | for life | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent set=Theme for life=Source | |||
| 4 | swallow | present | a bottlenose dolphin not said here | fish | whole property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:9.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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