The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 4
Films like Jaws made people fear sharks, but the true numbers run the other way: people kill far more sharks than sharks ever kill people.
Who acts: Films, people, true numbers, sharks · What happens: make, fear, run, kill · To what, where: sharks, other way, more sharks, people
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 (Films, people, true numbers, sharks), 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 | Films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj |
| 2 | like | like | ADP | _ | 3 Jaws | case |
| 3 | Jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Films | nmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fear | nsubj |
| 6 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 7 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fear | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 run | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 run | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 numbers | det |
| 11 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 numbers | amod |
| 12 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 run | nsubj |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 way | amod |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | obl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 kill | punct |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kill | nsubj |
| 19 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 20 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 more | advmod |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 sharks | amod |
| 22 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 kill | obj |
| 23 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 26 kill | mark |
| 24 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kill | nsubj |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 kill | advmod |
| 26 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kill | advcl |
| 27 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kill | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Films like Jaws | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fear | infinitive | people | sharks | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shark=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | run | present | the true numbers | the other way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | present | people | more sharks | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shark=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | present | sharks | people | ever | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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:4.
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 ×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.
See the release 0.4.
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