How nature documentaries are made: hides, camera traps, drones and years of waiting, sentence 15
Some divers use special breathing machines that let out no noisy bubbles, because bubbles and noise scare many fish; some deep scenes are filmed from small submarines.
Who acts: divers, special breathing machines, bubbles · What happens: use, let out, scare, film · To what, where: special breathing machines, noisy bubbles, many fish, deep scenes, small submarines
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 (divers, special breathing machines, bubbles), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 divers | det |
| 2 | divers | diver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 machines | amod |
| 5 | breathing | breathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 machines | compound |
| 6 | machines | machine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 let | nsubj |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 machines | acl:relcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 let | compound:prt |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 bubbles | det |
| 11 | noisy | noisy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bubbles | amod |
| 12 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 let | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 filmed | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 18 scare | mark |
| 15 | bubbles | bubble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 scare | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 noise | cc |
| 17 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bubbles | conj |
| 18 | scare | scare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | advcl |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fish | amod |
| 20 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 scare | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 scenes | punct |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 scenes | det |
| 23 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 scenes | amod |
| 24 | scenes | scene | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 filmed | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 filmed | aux:pass |
| 26 | filmed | film | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 use | parataxis |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 submarines | case |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 submarines | amod |
| 29 | submarines | submarine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 filmed | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 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 | some divers | special breathing machines | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent machine=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let out | present | special breathing machines | no noisy bubbles | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bubble=Theme | ||||
| 3 | scare | present | bubbles and noise | many fish | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus fish=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | film | present · passive | some deep scenes | small submarines | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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: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): R1-cc-next ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
See the release 0.4.
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