The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 9
A baleen whale's throat is narrow for such a giant, and it could not swallow a person; the toothed sperm whale is different and swallows big squid whole.
Who acts: throat, giant, toothed sperm whale · What happens: be, not swallow, swallow · To what, where: person, big squid
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (throat, giant, toothed sperm whale), 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 | 3 whale | det |
| 2 | baleen | baleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 whale | compound |
| 3 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 throat | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 whale | case |
| 5 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 narrow | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 narrow | cop |
| 7 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 giant | case |
| 9 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 giant | det:predet |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 narrow | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swallow | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 swallow | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 swallow | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 swallow | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 swallow | advmod |
| 17 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 narrow | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 person | det |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swallow | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 different | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 whale | det |
| 22 | toothed | toothed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 whale | amod |
| 23 | sperm | sperm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 whale | compound |
| 24 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 different | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 different | cop |
| 26 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 swallow | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 swallows | cc |
| 28 | swallows | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 different | conj |
| 29 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 squid | amod |
| 30 | squid | squid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 swallows | obj |
| 31 | whole | whole | ADV | _ | 28 swallows | advmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 narrow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a baleen whale's throat | for such giant; narrow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not swallow | could | giant | a person | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the toothed sperm whale | different property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | swallow | present | the toothed sperm whale not said here | big squid | whole property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent squid=Patient |
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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:9.
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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