Sharks, sentence 7

Great white sharks often attack seals from below and can burst right out of the water; they grow to about 6 metres and can live over 70 years.

Who acts: Great white sharks, fossils · What happens: attack, burst, grow, live · To what, where: seals, water

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 (Great white sharks, 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 attack	nsubj
4	often	often	ADV	_	5 attack	advmod
5	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 grow	conj
6	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 attack	obj
7	from	from	ADP	_	8 below	case
8	below	below	ADV	_	5 attack	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 burst	cc
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 burst	aux
11	burst	burst	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 attack	conj
12	right	right	ADV	_	11 burst	advmod
13	out	out	ADP	_	16 water	case
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 water	det
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 burst	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 grow	punct
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 grow	nsubj
19	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	to	to	ADP	_	23 metres	case
21	about	about	ADV	_	22 6	advmod
22	6	6	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	23 metres	nummod
23	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 grow	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 live	cc
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 live	aux
26	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 grow	conj
27	over	over	ADP	_	29 years	case
28	70	70	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 years	nummod
29	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 live	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 attack	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	present	Great white sharks	seals			often property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Patient
2	burst	can	Great white sharks not said here		the water		right property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out water=Location
3	grow	present	fossils = fossil				to 6 metres	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	can	fossils = fossil not said here			year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:7.

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): R6-punct-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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