Sharks, sentence 4

And the biggest shark of all, the whale shark, up to 12 to 18 metres long, eats only plankton and tiny fish and lets snorkellers swim beside it.

Who acts: biggest shark, snorkellers · What happens: eat, let, swim · To what, where: plankton, shark

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 (biggest shark, snorkellers), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	20 eats	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shark	det
3	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 shark	amod
4	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eats	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 all	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 shark	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 shark	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shark	det
9	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shark	compound
10	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shark	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 metres	punct
12	up	up	ADV	_	14 12	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	14 12	case
14	12	12	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 metres	nummod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 18	case
16	18	18	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 12	nmod
17	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 long	obl:unmarked
18	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 eats	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 long	punct
20	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 plankton	advmod
22	plankton	plankton	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eats	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 fish	cc
24	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fish	amod
25	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 plankton	conj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lets	cc
27	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 eats	conj
28	snorkellers	snorkeller	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 swim	nsubj
29	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 lets	xcomp
30	beside	beside	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 swim	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 eats	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the biggest shark of all and the whale shark	plankton and tiny fish		long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plankton=Patient
2	let	present	the biggest shark of all and the whale shark not said here				tree rules
3	swim	infinitive	snorkellers		shark		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Trajectory

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:4.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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