Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 6
Even so, all sharks together make only about 70 unprovoked bites on people a year worldwide (unprovoked means nobody had poked, caught or fed the shark), and many sharks are now in danger from fishing.
Who acts: sharks, unprovoked, nobody, many sharks · What happens: make, mean, poke, catch, feed, be · To what, where: 70 unprovoked bites, shark, danger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (sharks, unprovoked, nobody, many sharks), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 2 so | advmod |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 make | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 so | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sharks | det |
| 5 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | nsubj |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 sharks | advmod |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 70 | advmod |
| 9 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 70 | advmod |
| 10 | 70 | 70 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 12 bites | nummod |
| 11 | unprovoked | unprovoked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bites | amod |
| 12 | bites | bite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 people | case |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bites | nmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bites | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | worldwide | worldwide | ADV | _ | 7 make | advmod |
| 18 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 19 | unprovoked | unprovoked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | parataxis |
| 21 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 poked | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 poked | aux |
| 23 | poked | poke | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 means | ccomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 caught | punct |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 poked | conj |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 27 fed | cc |
| 27 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 poked | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 shark | det |
| 29 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fed | obj |
| 30 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 means | punct |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 danger | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 danger | cc |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 sharks | amod |
| 34 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 danger | nsubj |
| 35 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 danger | cop |
| 36 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 danger | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 danger | case |
| 38 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | conj |
| 39 | from | from | ADP | _ | 40 fishing | case |
| 40 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 danger | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 make | 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 | make | present | all sharks | 70 unprovoked bites | on people; worldwide property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bite=Product | |||
| 2 | mean | present | unprovoked | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | poke | past · perfect | nobody | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | catch | participle | nobody not said here | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | feed | participle | nobody not said here | the shark | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | many sharks | danger | now | from fishing | 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:310-sharks-by-kind-great-white-tiger-bull-and-hammerhead.lesson:6.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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