The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 8

Great white sharks, the sharks of Jaws, hunt fish and seals and are rarely kept in aquariums because they swim huge distances and many stopped eating or died in tanks.

Who acts: sharks, many · What happens: hunt, keep, swim, stop, eat, die · To what, where: fish, aquariums, huge distances

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, many), 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	Great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sharks	amod
3	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hunt	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sharks	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sharks	det
6	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sharks	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 Jaws	case
8	Jaws	Jaws	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 sharks	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sharks	punct
10	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 hunt	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 seals	cc
13	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fish	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kept	cc
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	aux:pass
16	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	17 kept	advmod
17	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 hunt	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 aquariums	case
19	aquariums	aquarium	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 kept	obl
20	because	because	SCONJ	_	22 swim	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 swim	nsubj
22	swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 kept	advcl
23	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 distances	amod
24	distances	distance	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 swim	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eating	cc
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 stopped	nsubj
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 swim	conj
28	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 stopped	xcomp
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	30 died	cc
30	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 eating	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 tanks	case
32	tanks	tank	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 died	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 hunt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hunt	present		fish and seals			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
2	keep	present · passive			aquariums	rarely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: in aquarium=Location
3	swim	present	sharks = shark	huge distances			vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme distance=Trajectory
4	stop	past	many				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5	eat	gerund	many not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	die	past	many not said here			in tanks	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in tank=Attribute

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:8.

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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