The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 12

Rheas are big flightless birds of South America, cousins of ostriches and emus, and a rhea father sits on eggs laid by several females, sometimes over 50.

Who acts: Rheas, rhea father · What happens: be, sit, lay · To what, where: big flightless birds, eggs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters» 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 (Rheas, rhea father), 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	Rheas	rhea	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 birds	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	cop
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
4	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 birds	amod
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 America	case
7	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 America	compound
8	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 birds	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cousins	punct
10	cousins	cousin	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 birds	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 ostriches	case
12	ostriches	ostrich	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cousins	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 emus	cc
14	emus	emu	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 ostriches	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sits	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sits	cc
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 father	det
18	rhea	rhea	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 father	compound
19	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sits	nsubj
20	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 birds	conj
21	on	on	ADP	_	22 eggs	case
22	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 sits	obl
23	laid	lay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 eggs	acl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 females	case
25	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 females	amod
26	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 laid	obl:agent
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 over	punct
28	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 over	advmod
29	over	over	ADV	_	20 sits	advmod
30	50	50	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	29 over	nummod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 birds	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	is a	present	Rheas	big flightless birds and cousins of ostriches and emus		of South America	tree rules
2	sit	present	a rhea father		eggs	over property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on egg=Location
3	lay	participle		eggs not said here			vn create-26.4 «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:108-the-south-american-area-sloths-anteaters-piranhas-giant-otters.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): no change. 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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