Sharks, sentence 12
Sharks have no swim bladder, so many sink if they stop swimming.
Who acts: Sharks, many, gills · What happens: have, sink, stop, swim · To what, where: swim bladder
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 (Sharks, many, gills), 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 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 bladder | det |
| 4 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bladder | compound |
| 5 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sink | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 many | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sink | nsubj |
| 9 | sink | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 stop | mark |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 stop | nsubj |
| 12 | stop | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sink | advcl |
| 13 | swimming | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 stop | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | 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 | Sharks | no swim bladder | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient | ||||
| 2 | sink | present | many | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | stop a condition, not said to happen | present | gills = gill | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | swim | gerund | gills = gill not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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: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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