Sharks by kind: great white, tiger, bull and hammerhead, sentence 9

Great whites usually hunt seals, fish and dead whales; most bites on people are thought to be mistakes or test bites, and often the shark swims away.

Who acts: Great whites, shark · What happens: hunt, think, be, swim away · To what, where: seals, most bites, mistakes

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 whites, 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 whites	amod
2	whites	white	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	nsubj
3	usually	usually	ADV	_	4 hunt	advmod
4	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunt	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fish	punct
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 seals	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 whales	cc
9	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 whales	amod
10	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fish	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 bites	punct
12	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 bites	amod
13	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thought	nsubj:pass
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 people	case
15	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 bites	nmod
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	aux:pass
17	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 hunt	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	20 mistakes	mark
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 mistakes	cop
20	mistakes	mistake	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 thought	xcomp
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 bites	cc
22	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bites	compound
23	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 mistakes	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 swims	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 swims	cc
26	often	often	ADV	_	29 swims	advmod
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 shark	det
28	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 swims	nsubj
29	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 thought	conj
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 swims	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Great whites	seals and fish and dead whales	usually property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seal=Theme
2	think speech: other	present · passive		most bites on people		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	is a	to-infinitive		mistakes or test bites		tree rules
4	swim away	present	the shark		away, often property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:9.

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 ×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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