Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 8

The star-nosed mole swims in North American wetlands and smells underwater by blowing little bubbles onto things and sniffing them back in.

Who acts: nosed mole · What happens: swim, smell, blow, sniff back · To what, where: North American wetlands, little bubbles, things, bubbles

This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 (nosed mole), 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	5 mole	det
2	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nosed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 star	punct
4	nosed	nose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mole	amod
5	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 swims	nsubj
6	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 wetlands	case
8	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 wetlands	compound
9	American	American	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wetlands	amod
10	wetlands	wetland	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 swims	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 smells	cc
12	smells	smell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 swims	conj
13	underwater	underwater	ADV	_	12 smells	advmod
14	by	by	SCONJ	_	15 blowing	mark
15	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 smells	advcl
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bubbles	amod
17	bubbles	bubble	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 blowing	obj
18	onto	onto	ADP	_	19 things	case
19	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 blowing	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sniffing	cc
21	sniffing	sniff	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 blowing	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sniffing	obj
23	back	back	ADV	_	21 sniffing	advmod
24	in	in	ADP	_	21 sniffing	compound:prt
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 swims	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	present	the nosed mole		North American wetlands		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wetland=Trajectory
2	smell	present	the nosed mole not said here			underwater property	vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	blow	gerund	the nosed mole not said here	little bubbles	things		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bubble=Patient onto thing=Recipient
4	sniff back	gerund	the nosed mole not said here	bubbles = bubble			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.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): 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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