Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 0

There are hundreds of kinds of monkeys, from a pygmy marmoset that could sit on your finger to a mandrill heavier than a big dog with a face painted red and blue.

Who acts: hundreds, pygmy marmoset · What happens: be, sit, paint · To what, where: finger, face

This is a sentence of the lesson «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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 (hundreds, pygmy marmoset), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 are	expl
2	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 are	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 kinds	case
5	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hundreds	nmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 monkeys	case
7	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 kinds	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 marmoset	punct
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 marmoset	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 marmoset	det
11	pygmy	pygmy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 marmoset	amod
12	marmoset	marmoset	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 are	nsubj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 sit	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 sit	aux
15	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 marmoset	acl:relcl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 finger	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 finger	nmod:poss
18	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sit	obl
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 mandrill	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 mandrill	det
21	mandrill	mandrill	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sit	obl
22	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	21 mandrill	amod
23	than	than	ADP	_	26 dog	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dog	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dog	amod
26	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 heavier	obl
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 face	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 face	det
29	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 dog	nmod
30	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 face	acl
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 painted	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 blue	cc
33	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 red	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 are	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	does	present	hundreds of kinds of monkeys		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sit	could	a pygmy marmoset		your finger	to a mandrill	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on finger=Location
3	paint	participle		a face not said here		red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.lesson:0.

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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