Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 3
The water is full of tall tales like that: whales are fish, every shark dies if it stops, piranhas strip a cow in seconds, and a jellyfish sting is cured with wee, which comes from a TV comedy, not a lifeguard.
Who acts: water, whales, shark, piranhas, wee · What happens: be, die, stop, strip, cure, come · To what, where: fish, cow, jellyfish sting, TV comedy
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 (water, whales, shark, piranhas), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 water | det |
| 2 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | cop |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tales | case |
| 6 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tales | amod |
| 7 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 full | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 tales | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 fish | punct |
| 11 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fish | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 fish | cop |
| 13 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 tales | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dies | punct |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 shark | det |
| 16 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dies | nsubj |
| 17 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 full | conj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 stops | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stops | nsubj |
| 20 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dies | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 strip | punct |
| 22 | piranhas | piranha | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 strip | nsubj |
| 23 | strip | strip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 dies | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cow | det |
| 25 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 strip | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 seconds | case |
| 27 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 strip | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 cured | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 cured | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 sting | det |
| 31 | jellyfish | jellyfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sting | compound |
| 32 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 cured | aux:pass |
| 34 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 full | conj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 wee | case |
| 36 | wee | wee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cured | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 comes | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 comes | nsubj |
| 39 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 wee | acl:relcl |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 comedy | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 comedy | det |
| 42 | TV | TV | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 comedy | compound |
| 43 | comedy | comedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 comes | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 lifeguard | punct |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 lifeguard | advmod |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 lifeguard | det |
| 47 | lifeguard | lifeguard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 comedy | appos |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 full | 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 | the water | of tall tales like that and fish; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | whales | fish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | die | present | every shark | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | stop a condition, not said to happen | present | shark | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | strip | present | piranhas | a cow | second | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | |||
| 6 | cure | present · passive | a jellyfish sting | with wee | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | ||||
| 7 | come | present | wee | a TV comedy | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from comedy=Initial_Location |
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:3.
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): no change. 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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