Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 10

On cold desert mornings a roadrunner lifts its back feathers to warm a patch of dark skin in the sun, since dark skin takes in more heat.

Who acts: roadrunner, dark skin · What happens: lift, warm, take · To what, where: back feathers, patch, more heat

This is a sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» 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 (roadrunner, dark skin), 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	On	on	ADP	_	4 mornings	case
2	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mornings	amod
3	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mornings	compound
4	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lifts	obl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 roadrunner	det
6	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifts	nsubj
7	lifts	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feathers	nmod:poss
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 feathers	compound
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lifts	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 warm	mark
12	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lifts	advcl
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 patch	det
14	patch	patch	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 warm	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 skin	case
16	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 skin	amod
17	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 patch	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 sun	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 skin	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 takes	punct
22	since	since	SCONJ	_	25 takes	mark
23	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 skin	amod
24	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 takes	nsubj
25	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lifts	advcl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 heat	case
27	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 heat	amod
28	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 takes	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lifts	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lift	present	a roadrunner	family's back feathers		morning	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Theme
2	warm	to-infinitive	a roadrunner not said here	a patch of dark skin in the sun			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent patch=Patient
3	take	present	dark skin		more heat		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in heat=Location

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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:10.

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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