The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 2
Next door the meerkats run a lookout: one stands on a rock on its back legs while the others dig for beetles and scorpions, and if an eagle comes the guard gives a special call and everyone dives into the burrow.
Who acts: meerkats, one, others, eagle, guard, everyone · What happens: run, stand, dig, come, give, dive · To what, where: Next door, rock, special call, burrow
This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» of the biology 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 (meerkats, one, others, eagle), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 door | amod |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 meerkats | det |
| 4 | meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 run | nsubj |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lookout | det |
| 7 | lookout | lookout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 stands | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 stands | nsubj |
| 10 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | parataxis |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 rock | det |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stands | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 legs | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 legs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | back | back | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 legs | amod |
| 17 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 rock | nmod |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 21 dig | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 others | det |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dig | nsubj |
| 21 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stands | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 beetles | case |
| 23 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 dig | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 scorpions | cc |
| 25 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 beetles | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gives | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 gives | cc |
| 28 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 comes | mark |
| 29 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 eagle | det |
| 30 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 comes | nsubj |
| 31 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 gives | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 guard | det |
| 33 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gives | nsubj |
| 34 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stands | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 call | det |
| 36 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 call | amod |
| 37 | call | call | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gives | obj |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 dives | cc |
| 39 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 40 dives | nsubj |
| 40 | dives | dive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 gives | conj |
| 41 | into | into | ADP | _ | 43 burrow | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 burrow | det |
| 43 | burrow | burrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dives | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | 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 | run | present | the meerkats | Next door | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lookout=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | one | a rock on hippo's back legs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ||||
| 3 | dig | present | the others | for beetles and scorpions | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for beetle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | present | a eagle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | give | present | the guard | a special call | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme | ||||
| 6 | dive | present | everyone | the burrow | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into burrow=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:biology:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.lesson:2.
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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