Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 8

Wobbegongs are flat sharks with patterned skin and frilly flaps around the mouth; they lie still on the seabed and snap up fish that come too close.

Who acts: Wobbegongs, fish · What happens: be, pattern, lie, snap up, come · To what, where: flat sharks, seabed, fish

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 (Wobbegongs, fish), 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	Wobbegongs	wobbegong	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sharks	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sharks	cop
3	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sharks	amod
4	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 skin	case
6	patterned	pattern	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 skin	amod
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sharks	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 flaps	cc
9	frilly	frilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flaps	amod
10	flaps	flap	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 skin	conj
11	around	around	ADP	_	13 mouth	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mouth	det
13	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flaps	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 lie	punct
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 lie	nsubj
16	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sharks	parataxis
17	still	still	ADV	_	16 lie	advmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 seabed	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 seabed	det
20	seabed	seabed	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lie	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 snap	cc
22	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lie	conj
23	up	up	ADP	_	22 snap	compound:prt
24	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 snap	obj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 come	nsubj
26	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 fish	acl:relcl
27	too	too	ADV	_	28 close	advmod
28	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 come	xcomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 sharks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Wobbegongs	flat sharks			with patterned skin and frilly flaps around the mouth	tree rules
2	pattern	participle						tree rules
3	lie	present	Wobbegongs = wobbegong		the seabed	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on seabed=Location
4	snap up	present	Wobbegongs = wobbegong not said here	fish				vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fish=Theme
5	come	present	fish				close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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:8.

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, R8-pos-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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