Ukraine's waters: Danube delta pelicans, Black Sea dolphins, sturgeon and gobies, sentence 8
Great white pelicans fish as a team, driving fish into shallow water and dipping their heads at the same moment; the rare Dalmatian pelican, the biggest pelican, also nests there.
Who acts: Great white pelicans, rare Dalmatian pelican · What happens: fish, drive, dip, nest · To what, where: fish, shallow water, heads
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 (Great white pelicans, rare Dalmatian pelican), 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 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pelicans | amod |
| 2 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pelicans | amod |
| 3 | pelicans | pelican | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fish | nsubj |
| 4 | fish | fish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 team | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 team | det |
| 7 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fish | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 driving | punct |
| 9 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fish | advcl |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driving | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 water | case |
| 12 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 water | amod |
| 13 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 driving | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 dipping | cc |
| 15 | dipping | dip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 driving | conj |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 heads | nmod:poss |
| 17 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dipping | obj |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 moment | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 moment | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 moment | amod |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dipping | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 pelican | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pelican | det |
| 24 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pelican | amod |
| 25 | Dalmatian | dalmatian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 pelican | amod |
| 26 | pelican | pelican | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nests | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 pelican | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pelican | det |
| 29 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 pelican | amod |
| 30 | pelican | pelican | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pelican | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 nests | punct |
| 32 | also | also | ADV | _ | 33 nests | advmod |
| 33 | nests | nest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fish | parataxis |
| 34 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 nests | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fish | present | Great white pelicans | as a team | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drive | gerund | 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 | gerund | Great white pelicans not said here | pelicans's heads | moment | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme | |||
| 4 | nest | present | the rare Dalmatian pelican | there | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:8.
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 ×1, 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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