Caring for the environment, sentence 12
Sea animals can swallow plastic or get tangled in it.
Who acts: Sea animals · What happens: swallow, get, tangle · To what, where: plastic
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caring for the environment» 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 (Sea animals), 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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 animals | compound |
| 2 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swallow | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 swallow | aux |
| 4 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | plastic | plastic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swallow | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 get | cc |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 swallow | conj |
| 8 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 swallow | conj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tangled | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swallow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swallow | can | Sea animals | plastic | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plastic=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get | infinitive | Sea animals not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | tangle | participle | Sea animals not said here | Plastic | tree rules |
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:057-environment.lesson:12.
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.
See the release 0.4.
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