Sharks by kind, small and strange: walking sharks, wobbegongs, cookiecutters and goblin sharks, sentence 9

Wobbegongs are calm but will bite if stepped on or poked, and they can hold on tight; divers should look but never touch.

Who acts: Wobbegongs, divers · What happens: be, bite, step on, poke, hold on, look

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, divers), 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	3 calm	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 calm	cop
3	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 bite	cc
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bite	aux
6	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 calm	conj
7	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 stepped	mark
8	stepped	step	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bite	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	8 stepped	compound:prt
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 poked	cc
11	poked	poke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stepped	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hold	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hold	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 hold	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 hold	aux
16	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 calm	conj
17	on	on	ADP	_	16 hold	compound:prt
18	tight	tight	ADV	_	16 hold	advmod
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 look	punct
20	divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 look	nsubj
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 look	aux
22	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 calm	parataxis
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 touch	cc
24	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	25 touch	advmod
25	touch	touch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 look	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 calm	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	Wobbegongs	calm property	tree rules
2	bite	future	Wobbegongs not said here		vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
3	step on a condition, not said to happen	participle	Wobbegongs not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	poke	participle	Wobbegongs not said here		vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	hold on	can	Wobbegongs = wobbegong	tight property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	look	should	divers		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
7	not touch	infinitive	divers not said here		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «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:9.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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