Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 4
On the real savanna zebras, giraffes and wildebeest graze side by side, eating different parts of the plants and watching out for lions together.
Who acts: real savanna zebras · What happens: graze, eat, watch out · To what, where: side, different parts
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 (real savanna zebras), 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 | _ | 5 zebras | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 zebras | det |
| 3 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 zebras | amod |
| 4 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 zebras | compound |
| 5 | zebras | zebras | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 graze | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 giraffes | punct |
| 7 | giraffes | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 zebras | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wildebeest | cc |
| 9 | wildebeest | wildebeest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 giraffes | conj |
| 10 | graze | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 graze | obl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 side | case |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 side | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eating | punct |
| 15 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 graze | advcl |
| 16 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 parts | amod |
| 17 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eating | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 plants | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 plants | det |
| 20 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 parts | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 watching | cc |
| 22 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 eating | conj |
| 23 | out | out | ADP | _ | 22 watching | compound:prt |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 lions | case |
| 25 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 watching | obl |
| 26 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 watching | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 graze | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | graze | present | the real savanna zebras and giraffes and wildebeest | side by side | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | eat | gerund | the real savanna zebras and giraffes and wildebeest not said here | different parts of the plants | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | ||||
| 3 | watch out | gerund | the real savanna zebras and giraffes and wildebeest not said here | for lions; together property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for lion=Theme |
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:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, 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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