Sharks, sentence 6
A shark's skeleton is made of cartilage, which is lighter and bendier than bone, so shark fossils are mostly teeth.
Who acts: cartilage, shark fossils · What happens: make, be · To what, where: skeleton, teeth
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 (cartilage, shark fossils), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 shark | det |
| 2 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 skeleton | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 shark | case |
| 4 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 made | aux:pass |
| 6 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 cartilage | case |
| 8 | cartilage | cartilage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lighter | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 lighter | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 lighter | cop |
| 12 | lighter | light | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 cartilage | acl:relcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bendier | cc |
| 14 | bendier | bendy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 lighter | conj |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 bone | case |
| 16 | bone | bone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lighter | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 shark | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 teeth | advmod |
| 19 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fossils | compound |
| 20 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 teeth | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 teeth | cop |
| 22 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 23 teeth | advmod |
| 23 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 made | parataxis |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | a shark's skeleton | of cartilage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | present | cartilage | than bone; light property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | cartilage not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | shark fossils | teeth | mostly property | tree rules |
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:6.
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, 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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