Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 3
A pelican's pouch scoops up about 10 litres of water, like a bucket, which it drains before swallowing the fish.
Who acts: pouch · What happens: scoop up, drain, swallow · To what, where: 10 litres, bucket, 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 (pouch), 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 | 4 pouch | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 pelican | case |
| 4 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scoops | nsubj |
| 5 | scoops | scoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 scoops | compound:prt |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 10 | advmod |
| 8 | 10 | 10 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 litres | nummod |
| 9 | litres | litre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 scoops | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 water | case |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 litres | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bucket | punct |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 bucket | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bucket | det |
| 15 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scoops | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 drains | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 drains | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 drains | nsubj |
| 19 | drains | drain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 bucket | acl:relcl |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 swallowing | mark |
| 21 | swallowing | swallow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 drains | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fish | det |
| 23 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swallowing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 scoops | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scoop up | present | a pelican's pouch | 10 litres of water | like a bucket | vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent litre=Theme | |||
| 2 | drain | present | pouch | a bucket | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent which=Source | ||||
| 3 | swallow | gerund | pouch not said here | the fish | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:3.
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): 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.
See the release 0.4.
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