Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 5
Many sea creatures are beautiful but should be left alone: some, like the cone shell and the blue-ringed octopus in Australia, can kill with their venom, and others, like crabs in rock pools, die if kept out of water.
Who acts: Many sea creatures, some, others · What happens: be, leave, ring, kill, die, keep out · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Safe at lakes and beaches» of the everyday 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 (Many sea creatures, some, others), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creatures | amod |
| 2 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 creatures | compound |
| 3 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 kill | parataxis |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 left | cc |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 left | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 left | aux:pass |
| 9 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 beautiful | conj |
| 10 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 left | xcomp |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 some | punct |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 28 kill | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 some | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 shell | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shell | det |
| 16 | cone | cone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shell | compound |
| 17 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 some | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 octopus | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 octopus | det |
| 20 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ringed | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 blue | punct |
| 22 | ringed | ring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 octopus | amod |
| 23 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shell | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Australia | case |
| 25 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 octopus | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 shell | punct |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 kill | aux |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 venom | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 venom | nmod:poss |
| 31 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 kill | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 die | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 others | cc |
| 34 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 die | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 crabs | punct |
| 36 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 crabs | case |
| 37 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 others | nmod |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 pools | case |
| 39 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pools | compound |
| 40 | pools | pool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 crabs | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 die | punct |
| 42 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 kill | conj |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 44 kept | mark |
| 44 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 die | advcl |
| 45 | out | out | ADP | _ | 47 water | case |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 water | case |
| 47 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 kept | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Many sea creatures | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave | should · passive | Many sea creatures not said here | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | ring | participle | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | kill | can | some | with creatures's venom | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | die | present | others like crabs in rock pools | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | keep out a condition, not said to happen | participle | others like crabs in rock pools not said here | water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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:everyday:232-lakes-and-beaches.lesson:5.
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, R6-punct-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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