How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 13
Scientists use drones to count whales and even to collect whale breath from the spray of their blow.
Who acts: Scientists, drones · What happens: use, count, collect, blow · To what, where: drones, whales, whale breath, spray
This is a sentence of the lesson «How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting» 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 (Scientists, drones), 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 | Scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | nsubj |
| 2 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | drones | drone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 use | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 count | mark |
| 5 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 use | advcl |
| 6 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 count | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 collect | cc |
| 8 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 collect | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 collect | mark |
| 10 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 count | conj |
| 11 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 breath | compound |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collect | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 spray | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spray | det |
| 15 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 collect | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 blow | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 blow | nmod:poss |
| 18 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spray | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 use | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | present | Scientists | drones | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drone=Patient | ||||
| 2 | count | to-infinitive | Scientists not said here | whales | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whale=Theme | ||||
| 3 | collect | to-infinitive | Scientists not said here | whale breath | the spray of drones's blow | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent breath=Theme from spray=Source | |||
| 4 | blow | drones = drone | nom blow «act intransitive»: 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:394-how-nature-documentaries-are-made-hides-camera-traps-drones-and-years-of-waiting.lesson:13.
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): no change. 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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