Wild animals and tall tales, sentence 5

And some tales are worse than wrong: the claim that sharks never get cancer was used to sell useless pills, and many sharks were killed for them.

Who acts: tales, sharks · What happens: be, not get, use, sell, kill · To what, where: cancer, claim, useless pills, many 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 (tales, sharks), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 worse	cc
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 tales	det
3	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 worse	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 worse	cop
5	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 wrong	case
7	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 worse	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 used	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 claim	det
10	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 used	nsubj:pass
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 get	mark
12	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 get	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 get	advmod
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 claim	acl
15	cancer	cancer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 used	aux:pass
17	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 worse	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 sell	mark
19	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 used	advcl
20	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 pills	amod
21	pills	pill	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 sell	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 killed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 killed	cc
24	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sharks	amod
25	sharks	shark	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 killed	nsubj:pass
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 killed	aux:pass
27	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 used	conj
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 killed	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 worse	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	some tales		than wrong; bad property	tree rules
2	not get	present	sharks	cancer		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cancer=Stimulus
3	use	past · passive		the claim		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	sell	to-infinitive		useless pills		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pill=Theme
5	kill	past · passive		many sharks	for tales = tale	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:008-wild-animals-and-tall-tales.lesson:5.

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): R7-rel-agree ×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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