The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark, sentence 3
In Jaws one shark terrorises a whole town, but real shark attacks are very rare, most of the 500 or so kinds of shark are smaller than a person, and people catch tens of millions of sharks every year.
Who acts: one shark, real shark attacks, most, people · What happens: terrorise, be, catch · To what, where: whole town, Jaws, tens
This is a sentence of the lesson «The ocean: open sea, sunlit zone and the deep dark» 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 (one shark, real shark attacks, most, people), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Jaws | case |
| 2 | Jaws | Jaws | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 terrorises | obl |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 shark | nummod |
| 4 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrorises | nsubj |
| 5 | terrorises | terrorise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 7 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 town | amod |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 terrorises | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rare | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 rare | cc |
| 11 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 attacks | amod |
| 12 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 attacks | compound |
| 13 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rare | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 rare | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 rare | advmod |
| 16 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 terrorises | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 smaller | punct |
| 18 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 smaller | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 500 | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 kinds | det |
| 21 | 500 | 500 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 most | nmod |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 kinds | cc |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 kinds | advmod |
| 24 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 500 | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 shark | case |
| 26 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kinds | nmod |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 smaller | cop |
| 28 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 terrorises | conj |
| 29 | than | than | ADP | _ | 31 person | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 person | det |
| 31 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 smaller | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 catch | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 catch | cc |
| 34 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 catch | nsubj |
| 35 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 smaller | conj |
| 36 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 catch | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 millions | case |
| 38 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 tens | nmod |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 sharks | case |
| 40 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 millions | nmod |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 year | det |
| 42 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 catch | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 terrorises | 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 | terrorise | present | one shark | a whole town | Jaws | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | real shark attacks | rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | most of 500 or the kinds of shark | than a person; small property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | catch | present | people | tens of millions of sharks | year | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=Theme |
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:008-the-ocean.lesson:3.
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. 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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