China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 10
A 2022 survey counted about 1,250 finless porpoises, slightly more than five years before.
Who acts: 2022 survey · What happens: count · To what, where: 1,250 finless porpoises
This is a sentence of the lesson «China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon» 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 (2022 survey), 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 | 3 survey | det |
| 2 | 2022 | 2022 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 3 survey | nummod |
| 3 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 counted | nsubj |
| 4 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 1,250 | advmod |
| 6 | 1,250 | 1,250 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 porpoises | nummod |
| 7 | finless | finless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 porpoises | amod |
| 8 | porpoises | porpoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 counted | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 more | punct |
| 10 | slightly | slightly | ADV | _ | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp ExtPos=ADV | 13 five | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 more | fixed |
| 13 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 years | nummod |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 before | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 8 porpoises | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 counted | 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 | count | past | a 2022 survey | 1,250 finless porpoises | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porpoise=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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:10.
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 ×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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