Sharks, sentence 8
Sharks smell blood well, but the story that they can smell one drop from miles away is exaggerated.
Who acts: Sharks, fossils · What happens: smell, exaggerate · To what, where: blood, one drop, story
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, 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 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 smell | nsubj |
| 2 | smell | smell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smell | obj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | _ | 2 smell | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 exaggerated | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 exaggerated | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 exaggerated | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 smell | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 smell | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 smell | aux |
| 12 | smell | smell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 story | acl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 drop | nummod |
| 14 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 smell | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 miles | case |
| 16 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 away | obl |
| 17 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 smell | advmod |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 exaggerated | aux:pass |
| 19 | exaggerated | exaggerate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 smell | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smell | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smell | present | Sharks | blood | well property | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | smell | can | fossils = fossil | one drop | away property | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer drop=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | exaggerate | present · passive | the story | 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:8.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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