Forests: woodland through the year and the great northern forest, sentence 8

A great spotted woodpecker drums on dead wood up to about 20 times a second to mark its territory, and its very long tongue wraps around the back of its skull.

Who acts: great spotted woodpecker, long tongue · What happens: spot, drum up, mark, wrap · To what, where: territory, back

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 (great spotted woodpecker, long tongue), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 woodpecker	det
2	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 woodpecker	amod
3	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 woodpecker	amod
4	woodpecker	woodpecker	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drums	nsubj
5	drums	drum	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wood	amod
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 drums	obl
9	up	up	ADP	_	5 drums	compound:prt
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 times	case
11	about	about	ADV	_	12 20	advmod
12	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	13 times	nummod
13	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 drums	obl:unmarked
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 second	det
15	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 times	nmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 mark	mark
17	mark	mark	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 second	advcl
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 territory	nmod:poss
19	territory	territory	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 mark	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 wraps	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wraps	cc
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 tongue	nmod:poss
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 long	advmod
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 tongue	amod
25	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wraps	nsubj
26	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 drums	conj
27	around	around	ADP	_	29 back	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 back	det
29	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 wraps	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 skull	case
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 skull	nmod:poss
32	skull	skull	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 back	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 drums	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	participle						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
2	drum up	present	a great spotted woodpecker			time	on dead wood	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on wood=Patient
3	mark	to-infinitive	a great spotted woodpecker not said here	woodpecker's territory				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent territory=Destination
4	wrap	present	woodpecker's long tongue		the back of woodpecker's skull			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme around back=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:012-forests-woodland-through-the-year.lesson:8.

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): 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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