Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs, sentence 11
An alligator floats with only its eyes and nostrils above the water, because they sit on top of its head; the Florida Everglades is the only place where alligators and crocodiles live side by side.
Who acts: alligator, flytraps, Florida Everglades, alligators · What happens: float, sit, be, live · To what, where: water, top, only place, side
This is a sentence of the lesson «Swamps, marshes, mangroves and bogs» 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 (alligator, flytraps, Florida Everglades, alligators), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 alligator | det |
| 2 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | nsubj |
| 3 | floats | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 place | parataxis |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 eyes | advmod |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 floats | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 nostrils | cc |
| 9 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eyes | conj |
| 10 | above | above | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 water | det |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 floats | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sit | punct |
| 14 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 sit | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sit | nsubj |
| 16 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 floats | advcl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 top | case |
| 18 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sit | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 head | nmod:poss |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 top | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 Everglades | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Everglades | det |
| 24 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Everglades | compound |
| 25 | Everglades | Everglades | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 place | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 place | cop |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 place | det |
| 28 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 place | amod |
| 29 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 live | advmod |
| 31 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 live | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 crocodiles | cc |
| 33 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 alligators | conj |
| 34 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 place | acl:relcl |
| 35 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 live | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 side | fixed |
| 37 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 side | fixed |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 floats | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | present | a alligator | the water | with alligator's eyes and nostrils | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sit | present | flytraps = flytrap | top of alligator's head | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the Florida Everglades | the only place | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | present | alligators and crocodiles | side | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:011-swamps-marshes-mangroves-and-bogs.lesson:11.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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