Sharks, sentence 5
Sharks lose teeth all the time and grow new ones from the rows behind, some tens of thousands in a lifetime.
Who acts: Sharks · What happens: lose, grow · To what, where: teeth, new ones, rows
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), 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 lose | nsubj |
| 2 | lose | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lose | obj |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 time | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lose | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grow | cc |
| 8 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lose | conj |
| 9 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grow | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 rows | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rows | det |
| 13 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 grow | obl |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 13 rows | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 behind | punct |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 tens | det |
| 17 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rows | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 thousands | case |
| 19 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tens | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 lifetime | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 lifetime | det |
| 22 | lifetime | lifetime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rows | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lose | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present | Sharks | teeth | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | grow | present | Sharks not said here | new ones | the rows some tens of thousands in a lifetime | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent one=Product from row=Material |
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:5.
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): no change. 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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