The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears, sentence 10
Tapirs are shy forest animals with short, bendy snouts, related to horses and rhinos; they escape danger by running into water, and their babies have stripes and spots like a watermelon that hide them in the forest light.
Who acts: Tapirs, rhinos, babies, short bendy snouts · What happens: be, escape, run, have, hide · To what, where: shy forest animals, danger, water, stripes, forest light
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Asian forest area: giant pandas, red pandas, tapirs and sun bears» 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 (Tapirs, rhinos, babies, short bendy snouts), 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 | Tapirs | tapir | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | cop |
| 3 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 animals | amod |
| 4 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 animals | compound |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 snouts | case |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 snouts | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 short | punct |
| 9 | bendy | bendy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 snouts | amod |
| 10 | snouts | snout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 animals | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 related | punct |
| 12 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 snouts | amod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 horses | case |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 related | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 rhinos | cc |
| 16 | rhinos | rhino | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 horses | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 escape | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 escape | nsubj |
| 19 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 animals | parataxis |
| 20 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 escape | obj |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 running | mark |
| 22 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 escape | advcl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 24 water | case |
| 24 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 running | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 have | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 babies | nmod:poss |
| 28 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 have | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 escape | conj |
| 30 | stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 have | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 spots | cc |
| 32 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 stripes | conj |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 watermelon | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 watermelon | det |
| 35 | watermelon | watermelon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stripes | nmod |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 hide | nsubj |
| 37 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 snouts | acl:relcl |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hide | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 light | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 light | det |
| 41 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 light | compound |
| 42 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hide | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 animals | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tapirs | shy forest animals | with short bendy snouts | tree rules | |||
| 2 | escape | present | rhinos = rhino | danger | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | run | gerund | rhinos = rhino not said here | into water result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into water=Result | ||||
| 4 | have | present | rhinos's babies | stripes and spots | like a watermelon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stripe=Patient | |||
| 5 | hide | present | short bendy snouts | stripes = stripe | the forest light | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent they=Patient in light=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.
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