Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 8

Roadrunners eat lizards, insects, scorpions, mice, small birds and even snakes, including young rattlesnakes, which a roadrunner kills by grabbing and whacking their heads against a rock.

Who acts: Roadrunners, roadrunner · What happens: eat, kill, grab, whack · To what, where: lizards, young rattlesnakes, heads

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 (Roadrunners, roadrunner), 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	Roadrunners	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 insects	punct
5	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lizards	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 scorpions	punct
7	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lizards	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mice	punct
9	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lizards	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 birds	punct
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 birds	amod
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lizards	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 snakes	cc
14	even	even	ADV	_	15 snakes	advmod
15	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lizards	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rattlesnakes	punct
17	including	include	ADP	_	19 rattlesnakes	case
18	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rattlesnakes	amod
19	rattlesnakes	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lizards	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 kills	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 kills	obj
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 roadrunner	det
23	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 kills	nsubj
24	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 rattlesnakes	acl:relcl
25	by	by	SCONJ	_	26 grabbing	mark
26	grabbing	grab	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 eat	advcl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 whacking	cc
28	whacking	whack	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 grabbing	conj
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 heads	nmod:poss
30	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 whacking	obj
31	against	against	ADP	_	33 rock	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 rock	det
33	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 whacking	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Roadrunners	lizards and insects and scorpions and mice and small birds and snakes and young rattlesnakes		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Patient
2	kill	present	a roadrunner	young rattlesnakes		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme
3	grab	gerund	Roadrunners not said here			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	whack	gerund	Roadrunners not said here	rattlesnakes's heads	against a rock	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent head=Instrument against rock=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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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