Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 13
Seahorses are fish, and male seahorses carry the eggs in a pouch and give birth.
Who acts: Seahorses, male seahorses · What happens: be, carry, give · To what, where: fish, eggs, pouch, birth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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 (Seahorses, male seahorses), 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 | Seahorses | seahorse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fish | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fish | cop |
| 3 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 carry | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 carry | cc |
| 6 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 seahorses | amod |
| 7 | seahorses | seahorse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carry | nsubj |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fish | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eggs | det |
| 10 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 carry | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 pouch | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 pouch | det |
| 13 | pouch | pouch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 carry | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 give | cc |
| 15 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 carry | conj |
| 16 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 give | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Seahorses | fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | present | male seahorses | the eggs | a pouch | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Value in pouch=Location | |||
| 3 | give | present | male seahorses not said here | birth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:13.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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