The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 6

Aquarium sharks are fed regular meals of fish, often from a long pole, and keepers record how much each one eats, so they mostly ignore their tankmates.

Who acts: keepers, one, sharks · What happens: feed, record, eat, ignore · To what, where: Aquarium sharks, much, tankmates

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 (keepers, one, 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	Aquarium	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sharks	compound
2	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	nsubj:pass
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	aux:pass
4	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 meals	amod
6	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fed	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fish	case
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meals	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pole	punct
10	often	often	ADV	_	14 pole	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 pole	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 pole	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 pole	amod
14	pole	pole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meals	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 record	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 record	cc
17	keepers	keeper	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 record	nsubj
18	record	record	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fed	conj
19	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 much	advmod
20	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 eats	obj
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 eats	nsubj
23	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 record	ccomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 ignore	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 ignore	advmod
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ignore	nsubj
27	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	28 ignore	advmod
28	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 record	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tankmates	nmod:poss
30	tankmates	tankmate	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 ignore	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fed	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feed	present · passive		Aquarium sharks		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient meal=Theme
2	record	present	keepers			tree rules
3	eat	present	each one	much		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient
4	ignore	present	sharks = shark	sharks's tankmates	mostly property	vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tankmate=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:6.

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): no change. 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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