Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 16

The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, up to about 3.5 metres, and glides for hours on the winds of the Southern Ocean.

Who acts: wandering albatross · What happens: have, glide, wind · To what, where: longest wingspan, winds, Southern Ocean

This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth» 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 (wandering albatross), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 albatross	det
2	wandering	wandering	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 albatross	amod
3	albatross	albatross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wingspan	det
6	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 wingspan	amod
7	wingspan	wingspan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bird	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 bird	det
10	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wingspan	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 metres	punct
13	up	up	ADP	_	17 metres	case
14	to	to	ADP	_	13 up	fixed
15	about	about	ADV	_	16 3.5	advmod
16	3.5	3.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 metres	nummod
17	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wingspan	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 glides	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 glides	cc
20	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 has	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 hours	case
22	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 glides	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 winds	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 winds	det
25	winds	wind	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 glides	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 Ocean	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Ocean	det
28	Southern	Southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Ocean	amod
29	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 winds	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	the wandering albatross	the longest wingspan of any living bird			up 3.5 metres	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wingspan=Patient
2	glide	present	the wandering albatross not said here		the winds of the Southern Ocean	hour		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wind=Trajectory
3	wind			the Southern Ocean				nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: of=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:007-antarctica.lesson:16.

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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