Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 16
Electric eels are not true eels but a kind of knifefish.
Who acts: Electric eels · What happens: not be · To what, where: true eels
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 (Electric eels), 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 | Electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eels | amod |
| 2 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eels | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 eels | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 eels | advmod |
| 5 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 eels | amod |
| 6 | eels | eel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 kind | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 kind | det |
| 9 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eels | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 knifefish | case |
| 11 | knifefish | knifefish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 kind | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eels | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | Electric eels | true eels but a kind of knifefish | 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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.lesson:16.
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): 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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