Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 5
It is a mermaid's purse, an egg case that once held a baby shark or ray.
Who acts: pouch, egg case · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: purse, baby shark
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 (pouch, egg case), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 purse | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 purse | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 mermaid | det |
| 4 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 purse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 mermaid | case |
| 6 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 case | punct |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 case | det |
| 9 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 case | compound |
| 10 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 purse | appos |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 held | nsubj |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | _ | 13 held | advmod |
| 13 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 case | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 shark | det |
| 15 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shark | compound |
| 16 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 held | obj |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 ray | cc |
| 18 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shark | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 purse | 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 | pouch | a mermaid's purse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | past | a egg case | a baby shark or ray | once property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=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:5.
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): no change. 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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