Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 5
Ancient sturgeons with bony plates swim up the Danube, and small big-headed gobies cling to rocks with a sucker; gobies even travelled in ships' water tanks to America's Great Lakes.
Who acts: Ancient sturgeons, small headed gobies, gobies · What happens: swim up, cling, travel · To what, where: Danube, Great Lakes, water tanks
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 (Ancient sturgeons, small headed 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 | Ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sturgeons | amod |
| 2 | sturgeons | sturgeon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 swim | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 plates | case |
| 4 | bony | bony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 plates | amod |
| 5 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sturgeons | nmod |
| 6 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 swim | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Danube | det |
| 9 | Danube | Danube | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 swim | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 cling | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cling | cc |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gobies | amod |
| 13 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 headed | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 big | punct |
| 15 | headed | head | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gobies | amod |
| 16 | gobies | goby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cling | nsubj |
| 17 | cling | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 swim | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 rocks | case |
| 19 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cling | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 sucker | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sucker | det |
| 22 | sucker | sucker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cling | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 gobies | punct |
| 24 | gobies | goby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 travelled | nsubj |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 travelled | advmod |
| 26 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 swim | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 tanks | case |
| 28 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 tanks | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 28 ships | case |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tanks | compound |
| 31 | tanks | tank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 travelled | obl |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Lakes | case |
| 33 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 Lakes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 33 America | case |
| 35 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 Lakes | amod |
| 36 | Lakes | lake | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 travelled | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 swim | 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 | swim up | present | Ancient sturgeons with bony plates | the Danube | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cling | present | small headed gobies | to rocks; with a sucker | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to rock=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | travel | past | gobies | America's Great Lakes | ships's water tanks | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tank=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:5.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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