Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 10

A pelican has four toes on each foot, all joined by webbing, while a duck has three webbed toes and one free toe; pelicans take off by running along the water slapping these big feet.

Who acts: pelican, webbing, duck, pelicans · What happens: have, join, web, take off, run, slap · To what, where: four toes, foot, all, three webbed toes, water, big feet

This is a sentence of the lesson «Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies» 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 (pelican, webbing, duck, pelicans), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pelican	det
2	pelican	pelican	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 toes	nummod
5	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 has	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 foot	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	8 foot	det
8	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 toes	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 joined	punct
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 joined	nsubj:pass
11	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 toes	acl:relcl
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 webbing	case
13	webbing	webbing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 joined	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 has	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	18 has	mark
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 duck	det
17	duck	duck	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 has	nsubj
18	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	advcl
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 toes	nummod
20	webbed	web	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 toes	amod
21	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 has	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 toe	cc
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 toe	nummod
24	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 toe	amod
25	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 toes	conj
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 take	punct
27	pelicans	pelican	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 take	nsubj
28	take	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
29	off	off	ADP	_	28 take	compound:prt
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 running	mark
31	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 take	advcl
32	along	along	ADP	_	34 water	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 water	det
34	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 running	obl
35	slapping	slap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 running	advcl
36	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 feet	det
37	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 feet	amod
38	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 slapping	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	a pelican	four toes	each foot	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
2	join	participle · passive	webbing	all		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
3	have	present	a duck	three webbed toes and one free toe		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Patient
4	web	participle				tree rules
5	take off	present	pelicans			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	run	gerund	pelicans not said here		the water	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along water=Trajectory
7	slap	gerund	pelicans not said here	this big feet		vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient

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:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:10.

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): R2-punct-next ×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.

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