Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 3
In the deep dark sea live sharks that glow, a pink shark that shoots its jaws out of its face, and a big gentle shark with a huge mouth that nobody knew about until 1976.
Who acts: sharks, pink shark, nobody · What happens: live, glow, shoot, know about · To what, where: deep dark sea, jaws, face, huge mouth
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 (sharks, pink shark, nobody), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 3 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sea | amod |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sea | amod |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 live | nsubj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 glow | nsubj |
| 9 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sharks | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shark | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 shark | det |
| 12 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shark | amod |
| 13 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sharks | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 shoots | nsubj |
| 15 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 shark | acl:relcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 17 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shoots | obj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 face | case |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 face | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 face | nmod:poss |
| 21 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shoots | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shark | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shark | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 shark | det |
| 25 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shark | amod |
| 26 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 shark | amod |
| 27 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shark | conj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 mouth | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 mouth | det |
| 30 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 mouth | amod |
| 31 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shark | nmod |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 knew | obj |
| 33 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 34 knew | nsubj |
| 34 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 mouth | acl:relcl |
| 35 | about | about | ADV | _ | 37 1976 | advmod |
| 36 | until | until | ADP | _ | 37 1976 | case |
| 37 | 1976 | 1976 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 34 knew | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sharks | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | sharks and a pink shark and a big gentle shark with a huge mouth | the deep dark sea | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | ||||
| 2 | glow | present | sharks and a pink shark and a big gentle shark with a huge mouth | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shoot | present | a pink shark and a big gentle shark with a huge mouth | shark's jaws | shark's face | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme out face=Destination | |||
| 4 | know about | past | nobody | a huge mouth | until 1976 | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=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:3.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R6-punct-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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