Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 15
The dwarf lanternshark of the Caribbean deep is one of the smallest sharks, about 20 centimetres long, shorter than a 30-centimetre school ruler; it glows.
Who acts: dwarf lanternshark, shark · What happens: be, glow · To what, where: one
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 (dwarf lanternshark, 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 lanternshark | det |
| 2 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lanternshark | amod |
| 3 | lanternshark | lanternshark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 deep | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 deep | det |
| 6 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 deep | compound |
| 7 | deep | deep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lanternshark | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sharks | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sharks | det |
| 12 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 sharks | amod |
| 13 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 centimetres | punct |
| 15 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 20 | advmod |
| 16 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 17 centimetres | nummod |
| 17 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 long | obl |
| 18 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 sharks | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 shorter | punct |
| 20 | shorter | short | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 sharks | parataxis |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 27 ruler | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ruler | det |
| 23 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 centimetre | nummod |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 30 | punct |
| 25 | centimetre | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ruler | compound |
| 26 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ruler | compound |
| 27 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shorter | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 glows | punct |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 glows | nsubj |
| 30 | glows | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | parataxis |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the dwarf lanternshark of the Caribbean deep | one | of the smallest sharks | tree rules | |||
| 2 | glow | present | shark | vn light_emission-43.1 «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:311-sharks-by-kind-small-and-strange-walking-sharks-wobbegongs-cookiecutters-and-goblin-sharks.lesson:15.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×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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