The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 3
Films show piranhas stripping a cow in seconds, Flash the sloth in Zootopia takes forever to laugh at a joke, and Sid of Ice Age meets dinosaurs; the truth is shy piranhas, sloths that really are slow, and giant ground sloths that lived long after the dinosaurs were gone.
Who acts: Films, piranhas, Flash, Sid, truth, sloths · What happens: show, strip, take, laugh, meet, be · To what, where: cow, joke, dinosaurs, shy piranhas
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 (Films, piranhas, Flash, Sid), 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 | Films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | nsubj |
| 2 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | piranhas | piranhas | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stripping | nsubj |
| 4 | stripping | strip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 show | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 cow | det |
| 6 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stripping | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 seconds | case |
| 8 | seconds | second | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stripping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 takes | punct |
| 10 | Flash | Flash | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 takes | nsubj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sloth | det |
| 12 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 takes | nsubj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Zootopia | case |
| 14 | Zootopia | Zootopia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 sloth | nmod |
| 15 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | parataxis |
| 16 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 15 takes | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 laugh | mark |
| 18 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 takes | advcl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 joke | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 joke | det |
| 21 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 laugh | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 meets | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 meets | cc |
| 24 | Sid | Sid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 meets | nsubj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Age | case |
| 26 | Ice | Ice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Age | compound |
| 27 | Age | age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sid | nmod |
| 28 | meets | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 show | conj |
| 29 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 meets | obj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 piranhas | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 truth | det |
| 32 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 piranhas | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 piranhas | cop |
| 34 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 piranhas | amod |
| 35 | piranhas | piranha | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 show | parataxis |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 sloths | punct |
| 37 | sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 piranhas | conj |
| 38 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 slow | nsubj |
| 39 | really | really | ADV | _ | 41 slow | advmod |
| 40 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 slow | cop |
| 41 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 sloths | acl:relcl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 sloths | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 sloths | cc |
| 44 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sloths | amod |
| 45 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sloths | compound |
| 46 | sloths | sloth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 piranhas | conj |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 48 lived | nsubj |
| 48 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 sloths | acl:relcl |
| 49 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 lived | advmod |
| 50 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 54 gone | mark |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 dinosaurs | det |
| 52 | dinosaurs | dinosaur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 gone | nsubj |
| 53 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 54 gone | cop |
| 54 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 lived | advcl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 show | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present | Films | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | strip | gerund | piranhas | a cow | second | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Patient | |||
| 3 | take | present | Flash | forever property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | laugh | to-infinitive | Flash not said here | a joke | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | meet | present | Sid of Ice Age | dinosaurs | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinosaur=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | the truth | shy piranhas and sloths and giant ground sloths | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | present | sloths | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | live | past | giant ground sloths | long property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | is | past | the dinosaurs | gone property | tree rules |
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:3.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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