Antarctica: penguins, seals and the coldest place on Earth, sentence 9

The leopard seal, about 3.5 metres long, eats krill, fish, penguins and other seals, and its back teeth lock together like a sieve to strain krill.

Who acts: leopard seal, back teeth · What happens: eat, lock, strain · To what, where: krill

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 (leopard seal, back 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 seal	det
2	leopard	leopard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seal	compound
3	seal	seal	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eats	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seal	punct
5	about	about	ADV	_	6 3.5	advmod
6	3.5	3.5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Frac	7 metres	nummod
7	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 long	obl:unmarked
8	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seal	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 seal	punct
10	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eats	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fish	punct
13	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 krill	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 penguins	punct
15	penguins	penguin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 krill	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seals	cc
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 seals	amod
18	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 krill	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lock	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 lock	cc
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 teeth	nmod:poss
22	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 teeth	compound
23	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 lock	nsubj
24	lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eats	conj
25	together	together	ADV	_	24 lock	advmod
26	like	like	ADP	_	28 sieve	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 sieve	det
28	sieve	sieve	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lock	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 strain	mark
30	strain	strain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sieve	acl
31	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 strain	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 eats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the leopard seal	krill and fish and penguins and other seals		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent krill=Patient
2	lock	present	krill's back teeth		like a sieve; together property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
3	strain	to-infinitive	krill's back teeth not said here	krill		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent krill=Source

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: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): R3-conj-first ×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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