Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 17

A mermaid's purse is the egg case of a catshark, skate or ray; curly tendrils at its four corners hold it to seaweed while the baby grows for months.

Who acts: purse, curly tendrils, baby · What happens: be, hold, grow · To what, where: egg case, purse

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 (purse, curly tendrils, baby), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 mermaid	det
2	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 purse	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 mermaid	case
4	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 case	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 case	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 case	det
7	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 case	compound
8	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 catshark	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 catshark	det
11	catshark	catshark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 case	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 skate	punct
13	skate	skate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 catshark	conj
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 ray	cc
15	ray	ray	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 skate	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tendrils	punct
17	curly	curly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tendrils	amod
18	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hold	nsubj
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 corners	case
20	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 corners	nmod:poss
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 corners	nummod
22	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 tendrils	nmod
23	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 case	parataxis
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hold	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 seaweed	case
26	seaweed	seaweed	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hold	obl
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 grows	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 baby	det
29	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grows	nsubj
30	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 hold	advcl
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 months	case
32	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 grows	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 case	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a mermaid's purse	the egg case		of a catshark and skate or ray	tree rules
2	hold	present	curly tendrils at purse's four corners	purse		to seaweed	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	grow	present	the baby		month		vn appear-48.1.1 «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:17.

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 ×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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