Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 14
Sharks do get cancer, and pills made of shark cartilage (the bendy stuff a shark's skeleton is made of) don't cure it; the myth was used to sell pills and has harmed sharks.
Who acts: Sharks, bendy stuff, pills · What happens: get, make, not cure, use, sell, harm · To what, where: cancer, pills, skeleton, myth, sharks
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild animals and tall tales» 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 (Sharks, bendy stuff, pills), 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 | Sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 get | nsubj |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 get | aux |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 cure | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 cure | cc |
| 7 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 cure | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 pills | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 cartilage | case |
| 10 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cartilage | compound |
| 11 | cartilage | cartilage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 15 stuff | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 stuff | det |
| 14 | bendy | bendy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stuff | amod |
| 15 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cartilage | appos |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 shark | det |
| 17 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 skeleton | nmod:poss |
| 18 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 17 shark | case |
| 19 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 made | aux:pass |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 stuff | acl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 made | obl |
| 23 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 15 stuff | punct |
| 24 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 cure | aux |
| 25 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 cure | advmod |
| 26 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 get | conj |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 cure | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 used | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 myth | det |
| 30 | myth | myth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 used | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 used | aux:pass |
| 32 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 get | parataxis |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 sell | mark |
| 34 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 used | advcl |
| 35 | pills | pill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 sell | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 harmed | cc |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 harmed | aux |
| 38 | harmed | harm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 used | conj |
| 39 | sharks | shark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 harmed | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | 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 | get | present · do-support | Sharks | cancer | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cancer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | make | participle | pills not said here | of shark cartilage | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 3 | make | present · passive | the bendy stuff not said here | a shark's skeleton | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 4 | not cure | present · do-support | pills | skeleton | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source | ||||
| 5 | use | past · passive | the myth | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | sell | to-infinitive | pills | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Theme | |||||
| 7 | harm | present · perfect | sharks | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus shark=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:myths:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:14.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-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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