Sharks, sentence 15
Hammerheads have eyes at the ends of a wide flat head, which gives better all-round vision and spreads out their electric sensors.
Who acts: Hammerheads, wide flat head · What happens: have, give, spread out · To what, where: eyes, ends, better round vision, electric sensors
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 (Hammerheads, wide flat head), 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 | Hammerheads | hammerhead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 ends | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ends | det |
| 6 | ends | end | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 head | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 head | det |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 10 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ends | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 gives | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 gives | nsubj |
| 14 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 head | acl:relcl |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 vision | amod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 vision | det |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 all | punct |
| 18 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 vision | amod |
| 19 | vision | vision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gives | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spreads | cc |
| 21 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 gives | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 spreads | compound:prt |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sensors | nmod:poss |
| 24 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sensors | amod |
| 25 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spreads | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Hammerheads | eyes | at the ends of a wide flat head | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 2 | give | present | a wide flat head | all better round vision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spread out | present | a wide flat head not said here | Hammerheads's electric sensors | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sensor=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:15.
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. 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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