China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 11

Every few years teams sail the whole Yangtze and count porpoises by sight and with underwater microphones that hear their clicks, counting the same way each time to show if numbers go up or down.

Who acts: teams, underwater microphones, numbers · What happens: sail, count, hear, show, go up, click · To what, where: whole Yangtze, porpoises, clicks, same way

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 (teams, underwater microphones, numbers), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 years	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 years	amod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sail	obl:unmarked
4	teams	team	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sail	nsubj
5	sail	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Yangtze	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Yangtze	amod
8	Yangtze	Yangtze	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sail	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 count	cc
10	count	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 sail	conj
11	porpoises	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 count	obj
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 sight	case
13	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 count	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 microphones	cc
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 microphones	case
16	underwater	underwater	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 microphones	amod
17	microphones	microphone	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sight	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 hear	nsubj
19	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 microphones	acl:relcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 clicks	nmod:poss
21	clicks	click	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hear	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 microphones	punct
23	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 count	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 way	det
25	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 way	amod
26	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 counting	obj
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 counting	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 show	mark
30	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 counting	advcl
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 go	mark
32	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 go	nsubj
33	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 show	advcl
34	up	up	ADV	_	33 go	advmod
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 down	cc
36	down	down	ADV	_	34 up	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 sail	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sail	present	teams	the whole Yangtze	year		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yangtze=Theme
2	count	present	teams not said here	porpoises		by sight and underwater microphones	vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent porpoise=Theme
3	hear	present	underwater microphones	teams's clicks			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer click=Stimulus
4	count	gerund	teams not said here	the same way	time		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme
5	show	to-infinitive	teams not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	go up a condition, not said to happen	present	numbers				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
7	click		teams = team				nom click «event transitive»: poss=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:379-china-s-great-rivers-the-finless-porpoise-the-lost-baiji-chinese-alligators-and-sturgeon.lesson:11.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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