Safe at lakes and beaches, sentence 7
A weever fish buried in the sand feels him coming and swims off instead of stinging him.
Who acts: weever fish, boy · What happens: bury, feel, come, swim off, sting · To what, where: weever fish, sand, boy
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 (weever fish, boy), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fish | det |
| 2 | weever | weever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fish | amod |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feels | nsubj |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 fish | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 sand | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sand | det |
| 7 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obl |
| 8 | feels | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 feels | obj |
| 10 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 feels | xcomp |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swims | cc |
| 12 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 feels | conj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 12 swims | compound:prt |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 stinging | mark |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | stinging | sting | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 coming | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 stinging | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 feels | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | participle | a weever fish not said here | the sand | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sand=Destination | ||||
| 2 | feel | present | a weever fish | boy | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | gerund | boy not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | swim off | present | a weever fish not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sting | gerund | boy not said here | boy | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
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:7.
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 ×1, 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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