Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar, sentence 10

A porpoise is a small sea mammal related to dolphins, with a blunt nose; it breathes air through a blowhole and comes up to the surface to breathe.

Who acts: porpoise · What happens: be, breathe, come up · To what, where: air, blowhole, surface

This is a sentence of the lesson «Wonderland's sea creatures and made-up ones: lobsters, whiting, turtles, the Mock Turtle, the Gryphon and the Caterpillar» 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 (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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 porpoise	det
2	porpoise	porpoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 related	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 related	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mammal	det
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mammal	amod
6	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mammal	compound
7	mammal	mammal	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 porpoise	appos
8	related	related	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 dolphins	case
10	dolphins	dolphin	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 related	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 nose	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	15 nose	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 nose	det
14	blunt	blunt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nose	amod
15	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 related	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 breathes	punct
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 breathes	nsubj
18	breathes	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 related	advcl
19	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breathes	obj
20	through	through	ADP	_	22 blowhole	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blowhole	det
22	blowhole	blowhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 breathes	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 comes	cc
24	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 breathes	conj
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 comes	compound:prt
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 surface	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 surface	det
28	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 comes	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 breathe	mark
30	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 comes	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 related	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a porpoise			to dolphins; with a blunt nose; related property	tree rules
2	breathe	present	porpoise	air	a blowhole		vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme
3	come up	present	porpoise not said here		the surface		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
4	breathe	to-infinitive	porpoise not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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:402-wonderland-sea-creatures-and-made-up-ones-lobster-whiting-turtle-mock-turtle-gryphon.lesson:10.

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. 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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