Sharks, sentence 17
Some sharks and rays lay eggs in leathery cases called mermaid's purses, while other sharks give birth to live pups.
Who acts: sharks, leathery cases, other sharks · What happens: lay, call, give · To what, where: eggs, leathery cases, purses, birth · Speech: someone speaks here
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, leathery cases, other sharks), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 sharks | det |
| 2 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 rays | cc |
| 4 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sharks | conj |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cases | case |
| 8 | leathery | leathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cases | amod |
| 9 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obl |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cases | acl |
| 11 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 purses | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 mermaid | case |
| 13 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 give | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 give | mark |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sharks | amod |
| 17 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 give | nsubj |
| 18 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | advcl |
| 19 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 give | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 live | mark |
| 21 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 pups | amod |
| 22 | pups | pup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 give | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | 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 | lay | present | some sharks and rays | eggs | leathery cases | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in case=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | participle | leathery cases not said here | mermaid's purses | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent purse=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | present | other sharks | birth | live pups obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=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:17.
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 ×3. 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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