Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 1
The great white hunts seals, the tiger shark eats almost anything, the bull shark swims up rivers, and the hammerhead sweeps the sand for hidden stingrays.
Who acts: tiger shark, bull shark, hammerhead · What happens: hunt, eat, swim, sweep · To what, where: seals, anything, rivers, sand
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead» 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 (tiger shark, bull shark, hammerhead), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 white | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 white | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hunts | amod |
| 4 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hunts | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eats | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 shark | det |
| 8 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shark | compound |
| 9 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eats | nsubj |
| 10 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hunts | conj |
| 11 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 12 anything | advmod |
| 12 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 eats | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swims | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shark | det |
| 15 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shark | compound |
| 16 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swims | nsubj |
| 17 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eats | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 rivers | case |
| 19 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 swims | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sweeps | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 sweeps | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hammerhead | det |
| 23 | hammerhead | hammerhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sweeps | nsubj |
| 24 | sweeps | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 swims | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sand | det |
| 26 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sweeps | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 stingrays | case |
| 28 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stingrays | amod |
| 29 | stingrays | stingray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sweeps | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hunts | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | seals | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | present | the tiger shark | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | swim | present | the bull shark | rivers | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up river=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | sweep | present | the hammerhead | the sand | for hidden stingrays | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sand=Location for stingray=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:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead.lesson:1.
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 ×2. 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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