Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 9

Tasmanian devils are the biggest meat-eating marsupials alive; they screech and growl to sort out who eats first, and their strong jaws crunch whole carcasses, bones and fur included.

Who acts: Tasmanian devils, marsupials, strong jaws · What happens: eat, be, screech, growl, sort out, crunch · To what, where: biggest eating marsupials, whole carcasses

This is a sentence of the lesson «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» 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 (Tasmanian devils, marsupials, strong jaws), 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	Tasmanian	tasmanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 devils	amod
2	devils	devil	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 marsupials	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 marsupials	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 marsupials	det
5	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 marsupials	amod
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 meat	punct
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 marsupials	amod
9	marsupials	marsupial	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 marsupials	amod
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 screech	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 screech	nsubj
13	screech	screech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 marsupials	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 growl	cc
15	growl	growl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 screech	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 sort	mark
17	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 screech	advcl
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 sort	compound:prt
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 eats	nsubj
20	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sort	ccomp
21	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	20 eats	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 crunch	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 crunch	cc
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 jaws	nmod:poss
25	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 jaws	amod
26	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crunch	nsubj
27	crunch	crunch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 screech	conj
28	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 carcasses	amod
29	carcasses	carcass	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 crunch	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bones	punct
31	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 carcasses	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fur	cc
33	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carcasses	conj
34	included	include	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 carcasses	acl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 marsupials	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	Tasmanian devils	the biggest eating marsupials		tree rules
3	screech	present	marsupials = marsupial			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	growl	present	marsupials = marsupial not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	sort out	to-infinitive	marsupials = marsupial not said here			tree rules
6	eat	present			first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	crunch	present	marsupials's strong jaws	whole carcasses and bones and fur		vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carcass=Patient
8	include	participle		whole carcasses and bones and fur not said here		vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson:9.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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