Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish, sentence 15
Sperm whales dive deep to hunt giant squid, and many sperm whales carry round scars left by the squid's suckers.
Who acts: Sperm whales, many sperm whales · What happens: dive, hunt, carry, leave · To what, where: giant squid, round scars
This is a sentence of the lesson «Octopuses, squid and cuttlefish» 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 (Sperm whales, many sperm whales), 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 | Sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 whales | compound |
| 2 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dive | nsubj |
| 3 | dive | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | deep | deep | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 dive | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 hunt | mark |
| 6 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 dive | advcl |
| 7 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 squid | amod |
| 8 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hunt | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carry | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carry | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 whales | amod |
| 12 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 whales | compound |
| 13 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dive | conj |
| 15 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 scars | amod |
| 16 | scars | scar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 scars | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 suckers | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 squid | det |
| 20 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 suckers | nmod:poss |
| 21 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 20 squid | case |
| 22 | suckers | sucker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 left | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dive | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dive | present | Sperm whales | deep property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | hunt | to-infinitive | Sperm whales not said here | giant squid | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | many sperm whales | round scars | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | participle | round scars not said here | by the squid's suckers | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by sucker=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:039-octopuses-squid-and-cuttlefish.lesson:15.
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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