Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 4
Picture a beach after a storm: among the seaweed lies a black leathery pouch with curly corners.
Who acts: you, black leathery pouch · What happens: picture, lie · To what, where: beach, seaweed
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 (you, black leathery pouch), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 beach | det |
| 3 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 storm | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 storm | det |
| 6 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beach | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 lies | punct |
| 8 | among | among | ADP | _ | 10 seaweed | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 seaweed | det |
| 10 | seaweed | seaweed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | obl |
| 11 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pouch | det |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pouch | amod |
| 14 | leathery | leathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pouch | amod |
| 15 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lies | nsubj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 corners | case |
| 17 | curly | curly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 corners | amod |
| 18 | corners | corner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 pouch | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a beach | after a storm | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent beach=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | present | a black leathery pouch with curly corners | the seaweed | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among seaweed=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:4.
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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