Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them, sentence 11

Whales strand on beaches for many reasons, such as sickness, loud noise, confusing coastlines or a group following its leader; rescuers keep them wet and cool and try to float them back out to sea, and people should call experts rather than push a whale alone.

Who acts: Whales, group, rescuers, people · What happens: strand, follow, keep, try, float, call · To what, where: beaches, leader, Whales, experts, whale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the news: true stories, fakes and how to read them» 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 (Whales, group, rescuers, people), 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	Whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strand	nsubj
2	strand	strand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 beaches	case
4	beaches	beach	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strand	obl
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 reasons	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 reasons	amod
7	reasons	reason	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 strand	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sickness	punct
9	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	11 sickness	case
10	as	as	ADP	_	9 such	fixed
11	sickness	sickness	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reasons	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 noise	punct
13	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 noise	amod
14	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sickness	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 coastlines	punct
16	confusing	confusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 coastlines	amod
17	coastlines	coastline	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reasons	conj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 group	cc
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 group	det
20	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coastlines	conj
21	following	follow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 group	acl
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 leader	nmod:poss
23	leader	leader	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 following	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 keep	punct
25	rescuers	rescuer	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 keep	nsubj
26	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 strand	parataxis
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 keep	obj
28	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 keep	xcomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 cool	cc
30	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 wet	conj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 try	cc
32	try	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 keep	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 float	mark
34	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 try	xcomp
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 float	obj
36	back	back	ADV	_	37 out	advmod
37	out	out	ADV	_	34 float	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 sea	case
39	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 out	obl
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 call	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 call	cc
42	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 call	nsubj
43	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	44 call	aux
44	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 try	conj
45	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 call	obj
46	rather	rather	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	48 push	cc
47	than	than	ADP	_	46 rather	fixed
48	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 call	conj
49	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	50 whale	det
50	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 push	obj
51	alone	alone	ADV	_	48 push	advmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 strand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strand	present	Whales		beaches	for many reasons such sickness and loud noise and confusing coastlines or a group	tree rules
2	follow	gerund	a group not said here	group's leader			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leader=Theme
3	keep	present	rescuers	Whales = whale		wet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	try	present	rescuers not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	float not said to happen	to-infinitive	rescuers not said here	Whales = whale		out property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Agent
6	call	should	people	experts			vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent expert=Recipient
7	push	infinitive	people not said here	a whale		alone property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=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:296-animals-in-the-news-true-stories-fakes-and-how-to-read-them.lesson:11.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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