Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast, sentence 32

Real life: the biggest animal from the sea, the blue whale, can eat about 4 tonnes of tiny krill in a day, so a huge sea-eater is not all made up.

Who acts: biggest animal · What happens: eat, not make up · To what, where: 4 tonnes, huge sea eater

This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, The Butterfly that Stamped, part 1: a wise king, a hungry Animal and a butterfly's boast» of the books 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 (biggest animal), 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 life	amod
2	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	nsubj
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 sea	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sea	det
9	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 animal	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 whale	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 whale	det
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 whale	amod
13	whale	whale	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sea	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 animal	punct
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 eat	aux
16	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 life	appos
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 4	advmod
18	4	4	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 tonnes	nummod
19	tonnes	tonne	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eat	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 krill	case
21	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 krill	amod
22	krill	krill	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tonnes	nmod
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 day	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 day	det
25	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 eat	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 made	punct
27	so	so	ADV	_	36 made	advmod
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 eater	det
29	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 eater	amod
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eater	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 sea	punct
32	eater	eater	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 made	nsubj:pass
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 made	aux:pass
34	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 made	advmod
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 made	advmod
36	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 eat	parataxis
37	up	up	ADP	_	36 made	compound:prt
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 life	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	can	the biggest animal from the sea and the blue whale	4 tonnes of tiny krill			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tonne=Patient
2	not make up	present · passive		a huge sea eater				all property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot

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:books:096-justso-butterfly-1-the-boast.lesson:32.

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 ×3. 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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