Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey, sentence 11
The smallest shrews weigh about as much as a paperclip or two, while an elephant weighs several tonnes, millions of times more.
Who acts: smallest shrews, elephant · What happens: weigh · To what, where: several tonnes
This is a sentence of the lesson «Zootopia: real sloths, shrews, predators and prey» 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 (smallest shrews, elephant), 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 | 3 shrews | det |
| 2 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 shrews | amod |
| 3 | shrews | shrew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weigh | nsubj |
| 4 | weigh | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 much | advmod |
| 7 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weigh | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 paperclip | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 paperclip | det |
| 10 | paperclip | paperclip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weigh | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 two | cc |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 paperclip | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 weighs | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 weighs | mark |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 elephant | det |
| 16 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 weighs | nsubj |
| 17 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weigh | advcl |
| 18 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tonnes | amod |
| 19 | tonnes | tonne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 weighs | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 millions | punct |
| 21 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 tonnes | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 times | case |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 millions | nmod |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 millions | amod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weigh | 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 | weigh | present | the smallest shrews | as a paperclip | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | weigh | present | a elephant | several tonnes and millions of times | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme tonne=Value |
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:142-zootopia-real-sloths-shrews-predators-and-prey.lesson:11.
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): 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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