Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 13

The goblin shark's family goes back over 100 million years, so it is sometimes called a living fossil, and few people have seen one alive.

Who acts: family, few people · What happens: go back, call, see · To what, where: family, one · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (family, few people), 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	5 family	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 shark	case
5	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 goes	advmod
8	over	over	ADV	_	10 million	advmod
9	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 million	compound
10	million	million	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 years	nummod
11	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 goes	obl:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 called	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 called	advmod
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 called	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 called	aux:pass
16	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	17 called	advmod
17	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 goes	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 fossil	det
19	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fossil	compound
20	fossil	fossil	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 called	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seen	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 seen	cc
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 people	amod
24	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 seen	nsubj
25	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 seen	aux
26	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 goes	conj
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 seen	obj
28	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 seen	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 goes	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	go back	present	the goblin shark's family		year		vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	call	present · passive		family		sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	see	present · perfect	few people	one		alive property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus

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:13.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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