Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 12
Peter Benchley, who wrote Jaws, later spent years working to protect sharks.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: write, spend, work, protect · To what, where: Jaws, sharks
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 (Peter), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | Benchley | Benchley | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Peter | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Jaws | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 wrote | nsubj |
| 5 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Peter | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Jaws | Jaws | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wrote | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Peter | punct |
| 8 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 spent | advmod |
| 9 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spent | obj |
| 11 | working | work | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 spent | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 protect | mark |
| 13 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 working | advcl |
| 14 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 protect | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=narrate
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | Peter | Jaws | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaws=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spend | past | Peter | year | late property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | work | gerund | Peter not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | protect | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | sharks | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Beneficiary |
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:12.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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