Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 8
A great white has about 300 teeth in rows, triangular with saw edges for slicing seal fat, and new teeth move forward like a conveyor belt; a shark can lose and replace thousands of teeth in its life.
Who acts: great white, saw edges, new teeth, shark · What happens: have, slice, move forward, lose, replace · To what, where: 300 teeth, rows, seal fat, thousands, life
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 (great white, saw edges, new teeth, shark), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 white | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 white | amod |
| 3 | white | white | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 300 | advmod |
| 6 | 300 | 300 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 teeth | nummod |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 rows | case |
| 9 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 teeth | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 triangular | punct |
| 11 | triangular | triangular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 teeth | amod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 edges | case |
| 13 | saw | saw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 edges | compound |
| 14 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 triangular | obl |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 slicing | mark |
| 16 | slicing | slice | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 edges | acl |
| 17 | seal | seal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fat | compound |
| 18 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slicing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 move | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 move | cc |
| 21 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 teeth | amod |
| 22 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 move | nsubj |
| 23 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 24 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 23 move | advmod |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 belt | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 belt | det |
| 27 | conveyor | conveyor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 belt | compound |
| 28 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 move | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 lose | punct |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 shark | det |
| 31 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lose | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 lose | aux |
| 33 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 has | parataxis |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 replace | cc |
| 35 | replace | replace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 lose | conj |
| 36 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 replace | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 teeth | case |
| 38 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 thousands | nmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 life | case |
| 40 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 life | nmod:poss |
| 41 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 replace | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | 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 | have | present | a great white | 300 teeth | rows | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | |||
| 2 | slice | gerund | saw edges not said here | seal fat | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | move forward | present | new teeth | like a conveyor belt; forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lose | can | a shark | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | replace | infinitive | a shark not said here | thousands of teeth | tooth's life | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Co-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:8.
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 ×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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