The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 16
Some sharks and skates lay eggs in tough cases called mermaid's purses, and the baby grows inside for months, fed by a yolk.
Who acts: sharks, tough cases, baby · What happens: lay, call, grow, feed · To what, where: eggs, tough cases, purses · Speech: someone speaks here
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, tough cases, baby), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 sharks | det |
| 2 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 skates | cc |
| 4 | skates | skate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sharks | conj |
| 5 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cases | case |
| 8 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cases | amod |
| 9 | cases | case | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lay | obl |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cases | acl |
| 11 | mermaid | mermaid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 purses | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 mermaid | case |
| 13 | purses | purse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grows | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grows | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 baby | det |
| 17 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grows | nsubj |
| 18 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lay | conj |
| 19 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 18 grows | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 months | case |
| 21 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 grows | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fed | punct |
| 23 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 grows | advcl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 yolk | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 yolk | det |
| 26 | yolk | yolk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fed | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | some sharks and skates | eggs | tough cases | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in case=Destination | |||
| 2 | call | participle | tough cases not said here | mermaid's purses | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | grow | present | the baby | month | inside property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | feed | participle | the baby not said here | by a yolk | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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