The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 11
In touch pools the rays' barbs are safely trimmed, and visitors stroke them gently with two fingers so the animals are not hurt.
Who acts: visitors · What happens: trim, stroke, not hurt · To what, where: barbs, rays, animals
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 (visitors), 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 | _ | 3 pools | case |
| 2 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pools | compound |
| 3 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trimmed | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rays | det |
| 5 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 barbs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 5 rays | case |
| 7 | barbs | barb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 trimmed | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trimmed | aux:pass |
| 9 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 10 trimmed | advmod |
| 10 | trimmed | trim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stroke | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 stroke | cc |
| 13 | visitors | visitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stroke | nsubj |
| 14 | stroke | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 trimmed | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 stroke | obj |
| 16 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 14 stroke | advmod |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 fingers | case |
| 18 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 fingers | nummod |
| 19 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stroke | obl |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 25 hurt | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 animals | det |
| 22 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 hurt | aux:pass |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 hurt | advmod |
| 25 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stroke | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 trimmed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trim | present · passive | the rays's barbs | in touch pools; safely property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in pool=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stroke | present | visitors | rays = ray | with two fingers; gently property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer with finger=Instrument | |||
| 3 | not hurt | present · passive | the animals | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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:091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.lesson:11.
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 ×2, 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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