Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 12
The goblin shark of the deep sea is pink because its blood shows through its thin skin, and it can fling its jaws forward out of its face to grab prey.
Who acts: goblin shark, blood, shark · What happens: be, show, fling, grab · To what, where: thin skin, jaws, face, prey
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 (goblin shark, blood, 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 | goblin | goblin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shark | compound |
| 3 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pink | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sea | det |
| 6 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sea | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shark | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pink | cop |
| 9 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 shows | mark |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 blood | nmod:poss |
| 12 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shows | nsubj |
| 13 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 pink | advcl |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 skin | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 skin | nmod:poss |
| 16 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 skin | amod |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shows | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 fling | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fling | cc |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fling | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fling | aux |
| 22 | fling | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pink | conj |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 24 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 fling | obj |
| 25 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 22 fling | advmod |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 face | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 face | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 face | nmod:poss |
| 29 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fling | obl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 grab | mark |
| 31 | grab | grab | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 fling | advcl |
| 32 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 grab | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 pink | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the goblin shark of the deep sea | pink property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show | present | shark's blood | shark's thin skin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fling | can | shark | shark's jaws | shark's face | forward property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme out face=Destination | ||
| 4 | grab | to-infinitive | shark not said here | prey | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:12.
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. 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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