Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 10
The cookiecutter shark is only about 50 centimetres long; it latches on with sucking lips and spins to cut a round plug of flesh out of whales, dolphins, seals and big fish.
Who acts: cookiecutter shark, shark · What happens: be, latch on, suck, spin, cut · To what, where: round plug
This is a sentence of the lesson «Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks» 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 (cookiecutter shark, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shark | det |
| 2 | cookiecutter | cookiecutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shark | compound |
| 3 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 long | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 long | cop |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 about | advmod |
| 6 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 50 | advmod |
| 7 | 50 | 50 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 centimetres | nummod |
| 8 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 long | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 latches | parataxis |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 latches | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 latches | nsubj |
| 12 | latches | latch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 latches | compound:prt |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 lips | case |
| 15 | sucking | suck | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 lips | amod |
| 16 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 latches | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spins | cc |
| 18 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 latches | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 cut | mark |
| 20 | cut | cut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 latches | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 plug | det |
| 22 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 plug | amod |
| 23 | plug | plug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cut | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 flesh | case |
| 25 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 plug | nmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 whales | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 whales | case |
| 28 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cut | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 dolphins | punct |
| 30 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 whales | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seals | punct |
| 32 | seals | seal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 whales | conj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 fish | cc |
| 34 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 fish | amod |
| 35 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 whales | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 long | 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 | is | present | the cookiecutter shark | 50 centimetres obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | latch on | present | shark | with sucking lips | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | suck | gerund | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | spin | present | shark not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cut | to-infinitive | shark not said here | a round plug of flesh | out whales and dolphins and seals and big fish | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset plug=Product |
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:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:10.
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): R6-punct-agree ×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.
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