The aquarium: the shark tunnel and the rays, sentence 9
Sharks kill fewer than about ten people a year worldwide, while people kill tens of millions of sharks every year.
Who acts: Sharks, people · What happens: kill · To what, where: ten people, tens
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, people), 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 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fewer | few | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 ten | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | ADP | _ | 6 ten | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 ten | advmod |
| 6 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 people | nummod |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kill | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 year | det |
| 9 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 kill | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | worldwide | worldwide | ADV | _ | 2 kill | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 kill | punct |
| 12 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 kill | mark |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kill | nsubj |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 kill | advcl |
| 15 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 millions | case |
| 17 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tens | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sharks | case |
| 19 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 millions | nmod |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 year | det |
| 21 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kill | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 kill | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | Sharks | ten people | year | worldwide property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme | ||
| 2 | kill | present | people | tens of millions of sharks | year | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ten=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:9.
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 ×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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