Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 11

The moose, called elk in Britain, is the largest deer; a big bull can stand over 2 metres at the shoulder and can put its whole head under water to eat salty water plants.

Who acts: moose, big bull · What happens: call, be, stand over, put, eat · To what, where: elk, Britain, largest deer, 2 metres, shoulder, whole head · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest» 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 (moose, big bull), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 moose	det
2	moose	moose	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 deer	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
4	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 moose	acl
5	elk	elk	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Britain	case
7	Britain	Britain	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 called	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 moose	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 deer	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 deer	det
11	largest	large	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 deer	amod
12	deer	deer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 stand	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 bull	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 bull	amod
16	bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stand	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 stand	aux
18	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 deer	parataxis
19	over	over	ADV	_	20 2	advmod
20	2	2	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	21 metres	nummod
21	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 stand	obl:unmarked
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 shoulder	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 shoulder	det
24	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stand	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 put	cc
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 put	aux
27	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 stand	conj
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
29	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 head	amod
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obj
31	under	under	ADP	_	32 water	case
32	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 put	obl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 eat	mark
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 put	advcl
35	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 plants	amod
36	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 plants	compound
37	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 eat	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 deer	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	call	participle	the moose not said here	elk	Britain	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	the moose	the largest deer		tree rules
3	stand over	can	a big bull	2 metres	the shoulder	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at shoulder=Location
4	put	can	a big bull not said here	shoulder's whole head	water	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme under water=Destination
5	eat	to-infinitive	a big bull not said here	salty water plants		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.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 ×2, 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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