The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 3

Look closely and you find surprises: shark skin made of tiny teeth, a shark egg case called a mermaid's purse, and a sawfish whose saw can feel electricity.

Who acts: you, shark egg case, saw · What happens: look, find, make, call, feel · To what, where: surprises, shark skin, purse, electricity · 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 (you, shark egg case, saw), 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	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	closely	closely	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 find	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 find	nsubj
5	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Look	conj
6	surprises	surprise	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 find	obj
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 skin	punct
8	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skin	compound
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 surprises	appos
10	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 skin	acl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 teeth	case
12	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 teeth	amod
13	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 made	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 case	punct
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 case	det
16	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 case	compound
17	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 case	compound
18	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skin	conj
19	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 case	acl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mermaid	det
21	mermaid	mermaid	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 purse	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 mermaid	case
23	purse	purse	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 called	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sawfish	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sawfish	cc
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 sawfish	det
27	sawfish	sawfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 purse	conj
28	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	29 saw	nmod:poss
29	saw	saw	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 feel	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 feel	aux
31	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sawfish	acl:relcl
32	electricity	electricity	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 feel	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Look	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here		closely property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	find	present	you	surprises		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surprise=Topic
3	make	participle		shark skin and a shark egg case not said here	of tiny teeth	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	call	participle	a shark egg case not said here	a mermaid's purse and a sawfish		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent purse=Recipient
5	feel	can	saw	electricity		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent electricity=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:091-the-aquarium-the-shark-tunnel-and-the-rays.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 ×3, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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