Classifying unusual animals, sentence 14
A seahorse is a fish: it has gills and fins and lives in water all its life.
Who acts: seahorse · What happens: be, have, live · To what, where: fish, gills, life, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» of the world 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 (seahorse), 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 seahorse | det |
| 2 | seahorse | seahorse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fish | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fish | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fish | parataxis |
| 9 | gills | gill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 has | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fins | cc |
| 11 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gills | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lives | cc |
| 13 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 has | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 water | case |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lives | obl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 life | det |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lives | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fish | 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 | is a | present | a seahorse | a fish | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | seahorse | gills and fins | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gill=Patient | ||||
| 3 | live | present | seahorse not said here | fish's life | water | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme life=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:world:029-classifying-unusual-animals.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): 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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