The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 2

Next door a giant anteater walks on its knuckles to keep its long claws sharp, then flicks a sticky tongue about 60 centimetres long into a termite feeder up to about 150 times a minute, without a single tooth in its mouth.

Who acts: giant anteater · What happens: walk, keep, flick · To what, where: Next door, knuckles, long claws, sticky tongue, termite feeder

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 (giant anteater), 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	6 walks	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 anteater	det
4	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 anteater	amod
5	anteater	anteater	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walks	nsubj
6	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 knuckles	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knuckles	nmod:poss
9	knuckles	knuckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 walks	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 keep	mark
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 walks	advcl
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 claws	nmod:poss
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 claws	amod
14	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 keep	obj
15	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 keep	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flicks	punct
17	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 flicks	advmod
18	flicks	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 walks	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tongue	det
20	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tongue	amod
21	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flicks	obj
22	about	about	ADV	_	23 60	advmod
23	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	24 centimetres	nummod
24	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 tongue	nmod:unmarked
25	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 centimetres	amod
26	into	into	ADP	_	29 feeder	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 feeder	det
28	termite	termite	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 feeder	compound
29	feeder	feeder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flicks	obl
30	up	up	ADV	_	34 times	advmod
31	to	to	ADP	_	34 times	case
32	about	about	ADV	_	33 150	advmod
33	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	34 times	nummod
34	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flicks	obl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 minute	det
36	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 times	nmod:unmarked
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 tooth	punct
38	without	without	ADP	_	41 tooth	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 tooth	det
40	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 tooth	amod
41	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 keep	obl
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 mouth	case
43	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 mouth	nmod:poss
44	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tooth	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 walks	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk	present	a giant anteater	Next door	anteater's knuckles			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on knuckle=Trajectory
2	keep	to-infinitive	a giant anteater not said here	anteater's long claws			without a single tooth in anteater's mouth; sharp property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme
3	flick	present	a giant anteater not said here	a sticky tongue 60 centimetres	a termite feeder	then; time		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme into feeder=Destination

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: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): R6-punct-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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