Migration: the great journeys, sentence 12

European eels swim thousands of kilometres to the Sargasso Sea to lay eggs, and the babies drift back on ocean currents; nobody has ever seen them lay eggs in the wild.

Who acts: European eels, babies, nobody, thousands · What happens: swim, lay, drift back, see · To what, where: thousands, eggs, ocean currents, wild

This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration: the great journeys» 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 (European eels, babies, nobody, thousands), 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	European	European	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 eels	amod
2	eels	eel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	nsubj
3	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 kilometres	case
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 thousands	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 Sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Sea	det
9	Sargasso	Sargasso	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Sea	compound
10	Sea	Sea	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 lay	mark
12	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swim	advcl
13	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 lay	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drift	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 drift	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 babies	det
17	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drift	nsubj
18	drift	drift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	conj
19	back	back	ADV	_	18 drift	advmod
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 currents	case
21	ocean	ocean	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 currents	compound
22	currents	current	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 drift	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
24	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	27 seen	nsubj
25	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	27 seen	advmod
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 swim	parataxis
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 seen	obj
29	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 seen	xcomp
30	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 lay	obj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 wild	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wild	det
33	wild	wild	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lay	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swim	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	present	European eels	thousands of kilometres			to the Sargasso Sea	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme thousand=Trajectory
2	lay	to-infinitive	European eels not said here	eggs				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result
3	drift back	present	the babies		ocean currents			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on current=Trajectory
4	see	present · perfect	nobody	thousands = thousand		ever		tree rules
5	lay	infinitive	thousands = thousand not said here	eggs	the wild			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in wild=Destination

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:054-migration-the-great-journeys.lesson:12.

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, 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.

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