The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 1

The sharks swim past the smaller fish without snapping at them, because the keepers feed them full meals from a long pole and a full shark is not hunting.

Who acts: sharks, smaller fish, keepers, full shark · What happens: swim, snap, feed, not hunt · To what, where: full meals, sharks, long pole

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays» 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 (sharks, smaller fish, keepers, full shark), 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	2 sharks	det
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 swim	nsubj
3	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	past	past	ADP	_	7 fish	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
6	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 fish	amod
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swim	obl
8	without	without	SCONJ	_	9 snapping	mark
9	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 fish	acl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 snapping	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 feed	punct
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	16 feed	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 keepers	det
15	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 feed	nsubj
16	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 swim	advcl
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 feed	iobj
18	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 meals	amod
19	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 feed	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	23 pole	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pole	det
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 pole	amod
23	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 feed	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hunting	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 shark	det
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 shark	amod
27	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 hunting	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 hunting	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 hunting	advmod
30	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 feed	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swim	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	swim	present	the sharks				past the smaller fish	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past fish=Trajectory
2	snap	gerund	the smaller fish not said here				at sharks = shark	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at they=Location
3	feed	present	the keepers	full meals	sharks = shark	a long pole		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient meal=Theme
4	not hunt	present · progressive	a full shark					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.lesson:1.

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): no change. 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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