Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 19

Ships carry water in tanks to keep steady when lightly loaded, and round gobies travelled in these tanks to faraway ports and spread into the Great Lakes of North America, where they eat local fish eggs and push local fish out.

Who acts: Ships, round gobies, gobies · What happens: carry, keep, load, travel, spread, eat · To what, where: water, tanks, Great Lakes, local fish eggs, local fish

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 (Ships, round gobies, gobies), 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	Ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	nsubj
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 tanks	case
5	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 carry	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 keep	mark
7	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 carry	advcl
8	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 keep	xcomp
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 loaded	mark
10	lightly	lightly	ADV	_	11 loaded	advmod
11	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 keep	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 travelled	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 travelled	cc
14	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 gobies	amod
15	gobies	goby	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 travelled	nsubj
16	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carry	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 tanks	case
18	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	19 tanks	det
19	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 travelled	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 ports	case
21	faraway	faraway	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ports	amod
22	ports	port	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 travelled	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spread	cc
24	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 travelled	conj
25	into	into	ADP	_	28 Lakes	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Lakes	det
27	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Lakes	amod
28	Lakes	lake	PROPN	Number=Plur	24 spread	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 America	case
30	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 America	compound
31	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Lakes	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 eat	punct
33	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	35 eat	advmod
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 eat	nsubj
35	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 Lakes	acl:relcl
36	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 eggs	amod
37	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 eggs	compound
38	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eat	obj
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 push	cc
40	push	push	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 eat	conj
41	local	local	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 fish	amod
42	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 push	obj
43	out	out	ADP	_	40 push	compound:prt
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carry	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	present	Ships	water	tanks		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Value in tank=Location
2	keep	to-infinitive	Ships not said here			steady property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	load	participle	Ships not said here			lightly property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	travel	past	round gobies		this tanks	to faraway ports	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=Trajectory
5	spread	past	round gobies not said here		the Great Lakes of North America		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into lake=Destination
6	eat	present	gobies = goby	local fish eggs			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
7	push out	present	gobies = goby not said here	local fish			vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:374-ukraine-s-waters-danube-delta-pelicans-black-sea-dolphins-sturgeon-and-gobies.lesson:19.

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): R1-cc-next ×3, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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