Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 2

Some walk on their fins across rock pools, some lie on the seabed looking like a frilly carpet, and one tiny shark takes round bites out of whales as if with a cookie cutter.

Who acts: Some, one tiny shark · What happens: walk, lie, look, take · To what, where: fins, seabed, round bites

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 (Some, one tiny 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 walk	nsubj
2	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 fins	case
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fins	nmod:poss
5	fins	fin	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	obl
6	across	across	ADP	_	8 pools	case
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pools	compound
8	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 walk	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lie	punct
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 lie	nsubj
11	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walk	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 seabed	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 seabed	det
14	seabed	seabed	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lie	obl
15	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 lie	advcl
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 carpet	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 carpet	det
18	frilly	frilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 carpet	amod
19	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 looking	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 takes	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 takes	cc
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 shark	nummod
23	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 shark	amod
24	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 takes	nsubj
25	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 walk	conj
26	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 bites	amod
27	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 takes	obj
28	out	out	ADP	_	30 whales	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 whales	case
30	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 bites	nmod
31	as	as	SCONJ	_	36 cutter	mark
32	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 cutter	mark
33	with	with	ADP	_	36 cutter	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 cutter	det
35	cookie	cookie	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 cutter	compound
36	cutter	cutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 takes	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Some		kinds's fins	across rock pools	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fin=Trajectory
2	lie	present	some		the seabed		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seabed=Location
3	look	gerund	some not said here			like a frilly carpet	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	take	present	one tiny shark	round bites		out whales	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent bite=Theme out whale=Initial_Location

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:2.

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, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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