Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales, sentence 3
The strangest are the beaked whales: deep divers so shy that some kinds are known only from a few bodies washed up on beaches.
Who acts: strangest · What happens: beak, be, know, wash up · To what, where: beaked whales, kinds, few bodies, beaches
This is a sentence of the lesson «Whales by kind, the toothed whales: sperm whale, orca, beluga and beaked whales» 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 (strangest), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 strangest | det |
| 2 | strangest | strange | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 whales | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 whales | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 whales | det |
| 5 | beaked | beak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 whales | amod |
| 6 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 divers | punct |
| 8 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 divers | amod |
| 9 | divers | diver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 whales | appos |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 shy | advmod |
| 11 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 divers | amod |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 known | mark |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 kinds | det |
| 14 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 shy | advcl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 bodies | advmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 bodies | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bodies | det |
| 20 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bodies | amod |
| 21 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 known | obl |
| 22 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 bodies | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 washed | compound:prt |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 beaches | case |
| 25 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 washed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 whales | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beak | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | the strangest | the beaked whales | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | know | present · passive | some kinds | a few bodies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wash up | participle | a few bodies not said here | beaches | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:313-whales-by-kind-the-toothed-whales-sperm-whale-orca-beluga-and-beaked-whales.lesson:3.
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 ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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