Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 2

Here a line of great white pelicans swims forward in a horseshoe, drives fish into shallow water, then all the heads dip at once.

Who acts: line, heads · What happens: swim, drive, dip · To what, where: horseshoe, fish, shallow water

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 (line, heads), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 swims	advmod
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 line	det
3	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swims	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 pelicans	case
5	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pelicans	amod
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pelicans	amod
7	pelicans	pelican	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 line	nmod
8	swims	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	forward	forward	ADV	_	8 swims	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 horseshoe	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 horseshoe	det
12	horseshoe	horseshoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swims	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drives	punct
14	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 swims	conj
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drives	obj
16	into	into	ADP	_	18 water	case
17	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 drives	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 dip	punct
20	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 dip	advmod
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 heads	det:predet
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 heads	det
23	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 dip	nsubj
24	dip	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 swims	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	26 once	case
26	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 dip	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 swims	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	a line of great white pelicans		a horseshoe; here		forward property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in horseshoe=Trajectory
2	drive	present	a line of great white pelicans not said here	fish	shallow water			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme into water=Trajectory
3	dip	present	all heads			then		vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent at once=Trajectory

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:2.

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, R5-strong ×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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