Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke, sentence 1
Instead, a curtain of baleen plates hangs from the upper jaw, made of keratin, the same stuff as your fingernails.
Who acts: curtain · What happens: hang, make · To what, where: upper jaw, curtain
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the baleen whales: blue, fin, humpback, grey, right and minke» 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 (curtain), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 8 hangs | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 curtain | det |
| 4 | curtain | curtain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hangs | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 plates | case |
| 6 | baleen | baleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 plates | compound |
| 7 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 curtain | nmod |
| 8 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 jaw | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jaw | det |
| 11 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 jaw | amod |
| 12 | jaw | jaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hangs | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 hangs | punct |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 curtain | acl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 keratin | case |
| 16 | keratin | keratin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stuff | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stuff | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stuff | amod |
| 20 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keratin | appos |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 fingernails | case |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fingernails | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fingernails | fingernail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 stuff | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hangs | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | present | a curtain of baleen plates | the upper jaw | instead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | make | participle | a curtain of baleen plates not said here | of keratin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:312-whales-by-kind-the-baleen-whales-blue-fin-humpback-grey-right-and-minke.lesson:1.
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): R5-strong ×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.
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