Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 1

They come in two big families: New World monkeys of Central and South America with flat noses and sideways nostrils, and Old World monkeys of Africa and Asia with narrow noses and nostrils pointing down.

Who acts: hundreds, narrow noses · What happens: come in, point down · To what, where: two big families

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, narrow noses), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 come	nsubj
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 come	advmod
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 families	nummod
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 families	amod
6	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 come	obl:unmarked
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 monkeys	punct
8	New	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 monkeys	amod
9	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 monkeys	compound
10	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 families	appos
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Central	case
12	Central	Central	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 monkeys	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 South	cc
14	South	South	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Central	conj
15	America	America	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 South	flat
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 noses	case
17	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 noses	amod
18	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 monkeys	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nostrils	cc
20	sideways	sideways	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 nostrils	amod
21	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 noses	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 monkeys	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 monkeys	cc
24	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 World	amod
25	World	World	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 monkeys	compound
26	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 monkeys	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Africa	case
28	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 monkeys	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 Asia	cc
30	Asia	Asia	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 Africa	conj
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 noses	case
32	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 noses	amod
33	noses	nose	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 monkeys	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 nostrils	cc
35	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 noses	conj
36	pointing	point	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 noses	acl
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 pointing	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	present	hundreds = hundred	two big families					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	point down	gerund	narrow noses and nostrils not said here					down property	vn wink-40.3.1 «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:1.

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, R7-rel-agree ×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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