Litter and caring for nature, sentence 21
Plastic in the sea kills many sea birds, turtles and fish that eat it or get tangled.
Who acts: Plastic, many sea birds · What happens: kill, eat, get, tangle · To what, where: many sea birds, Plastic
This is a sentence of the lesson «Litter and caring for nature» 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 (Plastic, many sea birds), 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 | Plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kills | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 sea | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plastic | nmod |
| 5 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 birds | amod |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 birds | compound |
| 8 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kills | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turtles | punct |
| 10 | turtles | turtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 birds | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 fish | cc |
| 12 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 birds | conj |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 eat | nsubj |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 birds | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 eat | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 get | cc |
| 17 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 eat | conj |
| 18 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 get | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kills | 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 | kill | present | Plastic in the sea | many sea birds and turtles and fish | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | many sea birds and turtles and fish | Plastic | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | many sea birds and turtles and fish not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | tangle | participle | many sea birds and turtles and fish not said here | tree rules |
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:239-litter-and-caring-for-nature.lesson:21.
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. 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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