China's great rivers: the finless porpoise, the lost baiji, Chinese alligators and sturgeon, sentence 9

The Yangtze finless porpoise has a low ridge with tiny bumps instead of a back fin and is the only porpoise that lives in fresh water.

Who acts: Yangtze finless porpoise, only porpoise · What happens: have, be, live · To what, where: low ridge, only porpoise, fresh water

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 (Yangtze finless porpoise, only porpoise), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 porpoise	det
2	Yangtze	yangtze	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 porpoise	compound
3	finless	finless	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 porpoise	compound
4	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ridge	det
7	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ridge	amod
8	ridge	ridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 bumps	case
10	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bumps	amod
11	bumps	bump	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ridge	nmod
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	16 fin	case
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 fin	det
15	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fin	compound
16	fin	fin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ridge	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 porpoise	cc
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 porpoise	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 porpoise	det
20	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 porpoise	amod
21	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	conj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 lives	nsubj
23	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 porpoise	acl:relcl
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 water	case
25	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 water	amod
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lives	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	the Yangtze finless porpoise	a low ridge		with tiny bumps; instead a back fin	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ridge=Patient
2	is a	present	the Yangtze finless porpoise not said here	the only porpoise			tree rules
3	live	present	the only porpoise		fresh water		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Location

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:9.

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.

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