The penguin pool, sentence 1
Not every penguin lives on ice: the penguins in many zoos come from warm coasts in South America and South Africa, where cold sea currents bring plenty of fish.
Who acts: penguin, penguins, cold sea currents · What happens: life, come, bring · To what, where: warm coasts, plenty
This is a sentence of the lesson «The penguin pool» 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 (penguin, penguins, cold sea currents), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 ice | advmod |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 penguin | det |
| 3 | penguin | penguin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ice | nsubj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ice | case |
| 6 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 penguins | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 penguins | det |
| 9 | penguins | penguin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ice | appos |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 zoos | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 zoos | amod |
| 12 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 penguins | nmod |
| 13 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 penguins | acl:relcl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 coasts | case |
| 15 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 coasts | amod |
| 16 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 come | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 America | case |
| 18 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 America | compound |
| 19 | America | America | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 coasts | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Africa | cc |
| 21 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Africa | compound |
| 22 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 America | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 currents | punct |
| 24 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 bring | advmod |
| 25 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 currents | amod |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 currents | compound |
| 27 | currents | current | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 bring | nsubj |
| 28 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 coasts | acl:relcl |
| 29 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bring | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 fish | case |
| 31 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 plenty | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 ice | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | life | every penguin | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come | present | the penguins in many zoos not said here | warm coasts in South America and South Africa | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from coast=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | bring | present | cold sea currents | plenty of fish | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent plenty=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:099-the-penguin-pool.lesson:1.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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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