Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 12
A hippo's closest living relatives are whales and dolphins, not pigs.
Who acts: closest living relatives · What happens: live, be · To what, where: whales
This is a sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 (closest living relatives), 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 | 2 hippo | det |
| 2 | hippo | hippo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 hippo | case |
| 4 | closest | close | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 relatives | amod |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 relatives | amod |
| 6 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 whales | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whales | cop |
| 8 | whales | whale | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dolphins | cc |
| 10 | dolphins | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 whales | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 pigs | punct |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 pigs | advmod |
| 13 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 whales | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 whales | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | a hippo's closest living relatives | whales and dolphins and pigs | tree rules |
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:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:12.
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.
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