Sharks, sentence 10
The whale shark is the biggest fish in the world, up to about 12 to 18 metres, filters plankton and is harmless to people.
Who acts: whale shark · What happens: be, filter · To what, where: biggest fish, world, plankton
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks» 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 shark), 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 | 3 shark | det |
| 2 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shark | compound |
| 3 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fish | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 6 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 fish | amod |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 world | det |
| 10 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 metres | punct |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 metres | case |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 up | fixed |
| 14 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 12 | advmod |
| 15 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 metres | nummod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 18 | case |
| 17 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 12 | nmod |
| 18 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fish | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 filters | punct |
| 20 | filters | filter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 fish | parataxis |
| 21 | plankton | plankton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 filters | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 harmless | cc |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 harmless | cop |
| 24 | harmless | harmless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 filters | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 people | case |
| 26 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 harmless | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fish | 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 whale shark | the biggest fish | the world | up 12 metres | tree rules | ||
| 2 | filter | present | plankton | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent plankton=Initial_Location | |||||
| 3 | is | present | to people; harmless property | tree rules |
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:028-sharks.lesson:10.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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