Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 14
Tiger sharks eat almost anything, from fish, turtles, sea snakes and birds to rubbish like tyres and number plates, reported; their notched teeth cut turtle shells, and young ones have stripes that fade with age.
Who acts: Tiger sharks, notched teeth, young ones, stripes · What happens: eat, report, notch, cut, have, fade · To what, where: anything, tyres, turtle shells, stripes
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 sharks, notched teeth, young ones, stripes), 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 | Tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sharks | compound |
| 2 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eat | nsubj |
| 3 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 5 anything | advmod |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 eat | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fish | punct |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 fish | case |
| 8 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 anything | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turtles | punct |
| 10 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fish | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 snakes | punct |
| 12 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 snakes | compound |
| 13 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turtles | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 birds | cc |
| 15 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 turtles | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 rubbish | case |
| 17 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 birds | nmod |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 tyres | case |
| 19 | tyres | tyre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rubbish | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 plates | cc |
| 21 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 plates | compound |
| 22 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tyres | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reported | punct |
| 24 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 tyres | acl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 shells | punct |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 27 | notched | notch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 teeth | amod |
| 28 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 cut | nsubj |
| 29 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | parataxis |
| 30 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shells | compound |
| 31 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 cut | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 have | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 have | cc |
| 34 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ones | amod |
| 35 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 have | nsubj |
| 36 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eat | conj |
| 37 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 have | obj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 fade | nsubj |
| 39 | fade | fade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 stripes | acl:relcl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 age | case |
| 41 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fade | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Tiger sharks | anything | from fish and turtles and sea snakes and birds to rubbish like tyres and number plates | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||
| 2 | report | participle | tyres and number plates not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | notch | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | cut | present | Sharks's notched teeth | turtle shells | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shell=Product | ||||
| 5 | have | present | young ones | stripes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient | ||||
| 6 | fade | present | stripes | with age | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with age=Instrument |
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:14.
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, R8-pos-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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