Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed, sentence 6
These shapes help no fish in the wild; they exist only because people like how they look.
Who acts: shapes, people · What happens: help, exist, like, look · To what, where: fish, wild
This is a sentence of the lesson «Silkworms and goldfish: two animals China changed» 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 (shapes, people), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 shapes | det |
| 2 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 help | nsubj |
| 3 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 wild | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wild | det |
| 8 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 exist | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 exist | nsubj |
| 11 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 help | parataxis |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 like | advmod |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 like | mark |
| 14 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 like | nsubj |
| 15 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 exist | advcl |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 look | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 look | nsubj |
| 18 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 like | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 help | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | help | present | this shapes | no fish | the wild | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | exist | present | shapes = shape | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | like | present | people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | look | present | shapes = shape | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:381-silkworms-and-goldfish-two-animals-china-changed.lesson:6.
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 ×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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