Water safety and the ocean, sentence 16
A goldfish stays at one depth by keeping just the right amount of gas in its swim bladder, and a fish floating on its side may have a sick swim bladder.
Who acts: goldfish, fish · What happens: stay, keep, float, have, amount · To what, where: one depth, right amount, swim bladder, side, sick swim bladder, gas
This is a sentence of the lesson «Water safety and the ocean» of the physics 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 (goldfish, fish), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 goldfish | det |
| 2 | goldfish | goldfish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | nsubj |
| 3 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 depth | case |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 depth | nummod |
| 6 | depth | depth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | obl |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 keeping | mark |
| 8 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 stays | advcl |
| 9 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 amount | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 amount | det |
| 11 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 amount | amod |
| 12 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 gas | case |
| 14 | gas | gas | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 amount | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bladder | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bladder | nmod:poss |
| 17 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bladder | compound |
| 18 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeping | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 have | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 have | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 fish | det |
| 22 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | nsubj |
| 23 | floating | float | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 fish | acl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 25 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 side | nmod:poss |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 floating | obl |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 have | aux |
| 28 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stays | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 bladder | det |
| 30 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 bladder | amod |
| 31 | swim | swim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 bladder | compound |
| 32 | bladder | bladder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 have | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | a goldfish | one depth | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at depth=Location | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | a goldfish not said here | the right amount of gas | goldfish's swim bladder | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent amount=Theme in bladder=Location | |||
| 3 | float | gerund | a fish not said here | goldfish's side | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | have | may | a fish | a sick swim bladder | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bladder=Patient | ||||
| 5 | amount | gas | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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:physics:013-water-safety-and-the-ocean.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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