The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 6

Hippos ooze a red-orange liquid sometimes called «blood sweat», which is neither blood nor sweat but works as sunscreen and may help stop germs in cuts.

Who acts: Hippos, orange liquid · What happens: ooze, call, be, work, help, stop · To what, where: orange liquid, blood, germs, cuts · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Hippos, orange liquid), 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	Hippos	hippo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ooze	nsubj
2	ooze	ooze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 liquid	det
4	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 orange	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 red	punct
6	orange	orange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 liquid	amod
7	liquid	liquid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ooze	obj
8	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 called	advmod
9	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 liquid	acl
10	«	«	PUNCT	_	11 blood	punct
11	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 called	obj
12	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blood	flat
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	12 sweat	punct
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 blood	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 blood	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 blood	cop
17	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	18 blood	cc:preconj
18	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 liquid	acl:relcl
19	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	20 sweat	cc
20	sweat	sweat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blood	conj
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 works	cc
22	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 blood	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 sunscreen	case
24	sunscreen	sunscreen	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 works	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 help	cc
26	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 help	aux
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 works	conj
28	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 help	xcomp
29	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stop	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 cuts	case
31	cuts	cut	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 stop	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ooze	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	ooze	present	Hippos	a orange liquid			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location liquid=Source
2	call	participle	a orange liquid not said here	blood		sometimes property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent blood=Recipient
3	is a	present	a orange liquid	blood nor sweat			tree rules
4	work	present	a orange liquid not said here			as sunscreen	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.attribute PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent as sunscreen=Attribute
5	help	may	a orange liquid not said here				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	stop	infinitive	a orange liquid not said here	germs	cuts		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality germ=Eventuality

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:6.

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): R6-punct-agree ×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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