Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 6

The best-supported idea is that stripes keep away biting flies; in experiments, horses in striped coats got far fewer flies landing on them.

Who acts: stripes, horses, fewer flies · What happens: support, be, keep away, bite, stripe, get · To what, where: best supported idea, biting flies, fewer flies, experiments

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 (stripes, horses, fewer flies), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 idea	det
2	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 idea	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 best	punct
4	supported	support	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 idea	amod
5	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	cop
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 keep	mark
8	stripes	stripe	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	nsubj
9	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	ccomp
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 keep	advmod
11	biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 flies	amod
12	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 keep	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	15 experiments	case
15	experiments	experiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 got	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 experiments	punct
17	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 got	nsubj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 coats	case
19	striped	stripe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 coats	amod
20	coats	coat	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 horses	nmod
21	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 idea	conj
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 fewer	advmod
23	fewer	few	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	24 flies	amod
24	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 got	obj
25	landing	land	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 flies	acl
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 them	case
27	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 landing	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 got	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	support	participle					vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	present		the best supported idea			tree rules
3	keep away	present	stripes	biting flies		away property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
4	bite	gerund					vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent
5	stripe	participle					tree rules
6	get	past	horses in striped coats	fewer flies	experiments		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus
7	land	gerund	fewer flies not said here			on stripes = stripe	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme on they=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:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:6.

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): R2-punct-next ×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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