Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth, sentence 10
A shark has several rows of teeth that move forward like a conveyor belt, and it can lose and regrow thousands of teeth in its life, so fossil shark teeth are common on some beaches.
Who acts: shark, several rows, shark teeth · What happens: have, move forward, lose, regrow, be · To what, where: several rows, thousands, life, beaches
This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: eyes, ears, hearts, trunks, tentacles, teeth» 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 (shark, several rows, shark teeth), 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 shark | det |
| 2 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rows | amod |
| 5 | rows | row | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 teeth | case |
| 7 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rows | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 move | nsubj |
| 9 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 rows | acl:relcl |
| 10 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 9 move | advmod |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 belt | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 belt | det |
| 13 | conveyor | conveyor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belt | compound |
| 14 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 move | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lose | cc |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 lose | nsubj |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lose | aux |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 regrow | cc |
| 21 | regrow | regrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 lose | conj |
| 22 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 regrow | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 teeth | case |
| 24 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 thousands | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 regrow | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 common | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 common | advmod |
| 30 | fossil | fossil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 shark | compound |
| 31 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 teeth | compound |
| 32 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 common | nsubj |
| 33 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 common | cop |
| 34 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 has | parataxis |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 beaches | case |
| 36 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 beaches | det |
| 37 | beaches | beach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 common | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | 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 | have | present | a shark | several rows of teeth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent row=Patient | ||||
| 2 | move forward | present | several rows of teeth | like a conveyor belt; forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | can | shark | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | regrow | infinitive | shark not said here | thousands of teeth | shark's life | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | present | shark teeth | some beaches | common property | tree rules |
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:041-counting-animals.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, 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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