Sharks, sentence 18
Many sharks are endangered because they grow slowly and have few young, and they keep oceans healthy by eating sick fish.
Who acts: Many sharks, purses · What happens: be, grow, have, keep, eat · To what, where: few young, oceans, sick fish
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 (Many sharks, purses), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sharks | amod |
| 2 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 endangered | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 endangered | cop |
| 4 | endangered | endangered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 endangered | advcl |
| 8 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 7 grow | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grow | conj |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 young | amod |
| 12 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 have | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 keep | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 keep | cc |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 endangered | conj |
| 17 | oceans | ocean | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 19 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 eating | mark |
| 20 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 keep | advcl |
| 21 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fish | amod |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 eating | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 endangered | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many sharks | endangered property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | purses = purse | slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | purses = purse not said here | few young | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Patient | ||||
| 4 | keep | present | purses = purse | oceans | healthy property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ocean=Theme | |||
| 5 | eat | gerund | purses = purse not said here | sick fish | vn eat-39.1-1 «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:028-sharks.lesson:18.
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, 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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