The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 14
Sawfish are critically endangered, mainly because their saws tangle in fishing nets.
Who acts: Sawfish, saws · What happens: be, tangle · To what, where: fishing nets
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 (Sawfish, saws), 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 | Sawfish | sawfish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 endangered | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 endangered | cop |
| 3 | critically | critically | ADV | _ | 4 endangered | advmod |
| 4 | endangered | endangered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tangle | punct |
| 6 | mainly | mainly | ADV | _ | 10 tangle | advmod |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 tangle | mark |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 saws | nmod:poss |
| 9 | saws | saw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tangle | nsubj |
| 10 | tangle | tangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 endangered | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 nets | case |
| 12 | fishing | fishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nets | compound |
| 13 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tangle | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 endangered | 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 | is | present | Sawfish | critically, endangered property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tangle | present | rays's saws | fishing nets | mainly property | tree rules |
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:14.
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): R8-pos-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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