Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys, sentence 8

Many mantises have a single ear in the middle of their chest that hears hunting bats, so they dive or spiral away, though with one ear they cannot tell which side the bat is on.

Who acts: Many mantises, single ear, flowers, bat · What happens: have, hear, hunt, dive, spiral away, not tell · To what, where: single ear, middle, hunting bats, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys» 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 (Many mantises, single ear, flowers, bat), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 mantises	amod
2	mantises	mantis	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ear	det
5	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 ear	amod
6	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 middle	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 middle	det
9	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ear	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 chest	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 chest	nmod:poss
12	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 middle	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 hears	nsubj
14	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ear	acl:relcl
15	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Part	16 bats	amod
16	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 hears	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 dive	punct
18	so	so	ADV	_	20 dive	advmod
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dive	nsubj
20	dive	dive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 have	conj
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 spiral	cc
22	spiral	spiral	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dive	conj
23	away	away	ADV	_	22 spiral	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tell	punct
25	though	though	SCONJ	_	32 tell	mark
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 ear	case
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 ear	nummod
28	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tell	obl
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
30	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 tell	advmod
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 dive	conj
33	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	34 side	det
34	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tell	obj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 bat	det
36	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 on	nsubj
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 on	cop
38	on	on	ADV	_	34 side	acl:relcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Many mantises	a single ear	the middle of flowers's chest		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Patient
2	hear	present	a single ear	hunting bats			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bat=Stimulus
3	hunt	gerund					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	dive	present	flowers = flower				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	spiral away	present	flowers = flower not said here			away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	not tell speech: assert	can	flowers = flower	which side		with one ear	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent side=Recipient
7	is	present	the bat	which side not said here		on property	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:137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys.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): R5-strong ×2. 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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