The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 12
A spider monkey's tail grips a branch like a fifth hand, with ridged bare skin on the tip like a fingerprint.
Who acts: tail · What happens: grip, ridge · To what, where: branch
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens» 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 (tail), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 monkey | det |
| 2 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 monkey | compound |
| 3 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tail | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 monkey | case |
| 5 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grips | nsubj |
| 6 | grips | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 branch | det |
| 8 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grips | obj |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hand | det |
| 11 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | amod |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grips | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 skin | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 skin | case |
| 15 | ridged | ridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 skin | amod |
| 16 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 skin | amod |
| 17 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | appos |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 tip | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tip | det |
| 20 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skin | nmod |
| 21 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 fingerprint | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 fingerprint | det |
| 23 | fingerprint | fingerprint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 skin | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grips | 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 | grip | present | a spider monkey's tail | a branch | like a fifth hand | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent branch=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | ridge | participle | 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:156-the-amazon-canopy.lesson:12.
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): no change. 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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