The South American area: sloths, anteaters, piranhas and giant otters, sentence 7

Giant anteaters have no teeth; a sticky tongue about 60 centimetres long flicks up to about 150 times a minute, they feed quickly at each nest to avoid too many bites, and the stomach grinds the food.

Who acts: Giant anteaters, sticky tongue, centimetres, stomach · What happens: have, flick up, feed, avoid, grind · To what, where: teeth, nest, many bites, food

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 anteaters, sticky tongue, centimetres, stomach), 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	Giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 anteaters	amod
2	anteaters	anteater	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 flicks	parataxis
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 teeth	det
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 tongue	det
8	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tongue	amod
9	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flicks	nsubj
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 60	advmod
11	60	60	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 centimetres	nummod
12	centimetres	centimetre	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 long	obl
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tongue	amod
14	flicks	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 flicks	compound:prt
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 times	case
17	about	about	ADV	_	18 150	advmod
18	150	150	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	19 times	nummod
19	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 flicks	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 minute	det
21	minute	minute	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 times	nmod:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 feed	punct
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 feed	nsubj
24	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 flicks	conj
25	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	24 feed	advmod
26	at	at	ADP	_	28 nest	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 nest	det
28	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 feed	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 avoid	mark
30	avoid	avoid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 feed	advcl
31	too	too	ADV	_	32 many	advmod
32	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bites	amod
33	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 avoid	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 grinds	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 grinds	cc
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 stomach	det
37	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grinds	nsubj
38	grinds	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 flicks	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 food	det
40	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grinds	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Giant anteaters	no teeth				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient
2	flick up	present	a sticky tongue			time		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	feed	present	centimetres = centimetre		each nest		quickly property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	avoid	to-infinitive	centimetres = centimetre not said here	many bites				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent bite=Location
5	grind	present	the stomach	the food				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

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:7.

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 ×3, 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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