Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 18
Gobies are small bottom fish of the Black and Azov seas whose front belly fins form a sucker; Berdiansk has a monument to the goby, the Goby Breadwinner, that fed people in hard years.
Who acts: Gobies, front belly fins, Berdiansk, Goby Breadwinner · What happens: be, form, have, feed · To what, where: small bottom fish, sucker, monument, people
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 (Gobies, front belly fins, Berdiansk, Goby Breadwinner), 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 | Gobies | goby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fish | cop |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fish | amod |
| 4 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | compound |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Black | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 seas | det |
| 8 | Black | Black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 seas | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Azov | cc |
| 10 | Azov | Azov | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Black | conj |
| 11 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fish | nmod |
| 12 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 fins | nmod:poss |
| 13 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fins | amod |
| 14 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fins | compound |
| 15 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 form | nsubj |
| 16 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seas | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sucker | det |
| 18 | sucker | sucker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 form | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 has | punct |
| 20 | Berdiansk | Berdiansk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 has | nsubj |
| 21 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fish | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 monument | det |
| 23 | monument | monument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 has | obj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 goby | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 goby | det |
| 26 | goby | goby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 monument | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Breadwinner | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Breadwinner | det |
| 29 | Goby | Goby | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Breadwinner | compound |
| 30 | Breadwinner | breadwinner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 goby | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 people | punct |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 fed | nsubj |
| 33 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 Breadwinner | acl:relcl |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fed | obj |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 years | case |
| 36 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 years | amod |
| 37 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 fed | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Gobies | small bottom fish | the Black seas nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | form | present | front belly fins | a sucker | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sucker=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Berdiansk | a monument | to the goby | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monument=Patient | |||
| 4 | feed | past | the Goby Breadwinner | people | year | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Recipient |
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:18.
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, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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