The environment, sentence 11
Plastic rubbish in the sea harms sea creatures, which can swallow it or get trapped in it.
Who acts: Plastic rubbish, sea creatures · What happens: harm, swallow, get, trap · To what, where: sea creatures, rubbish
This is a sentence of the lesson «The environment» of the religion ethics 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 (Plastic rubbish, sea creatures), 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 | Plastic | plastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 rubbish | amod |
| 2 | rubbish | rubbish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 harms | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sea | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sea | det |
| 5 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rubbish | nmod |
| 6 | harms | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 creatures | compound |
| 8 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 harms | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 creatures | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 swallow | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 swallow | aux |
| 12 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 creatures | acl:relcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 swallow | obj |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 swallow | conj |
| 16 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 swallow | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 trapped | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 harms | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | harm | present | Plastic rubbish in the sea | sea creatures | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus creature=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | swallow | can | sea creatures | rubbish | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | sea creatures not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | trap | participle | sea creatures not said here | rubbish | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in it=Destination |
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:religion-ethics:047-the-environment.lesson:11.
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. 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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