The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 16
Squirrel monkeys travel in big troops and often follow capuchin monkeys to find fruit trees, and many eyes spot eagles sooner.
Who acts: Squirrel monkeys, many eyes · What happens: travel, follow, find, spot · To what, where: big troops, capuchin monkeys, fruit trees, eagles
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 (Squirrel monkeys, many eyes), 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 | Squirrel | squirrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 monkeys | compound |
| 2 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 travel | nsubj |
| 3 | travel | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 troops | case |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 troops | amod |
| 6 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 travel | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 follow | cc |
| 8 | often | often | ADV | _ | 9 follow | advmod |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 travel | conj |
| 10 | capuchin | capuchin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 monkeys | amod |
| 11 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 follow | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 follow | advcl |
| 14 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trees | compound |
| 15 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spot | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 spot | cc |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eyes | amod |
| 19 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spot | nsubj |
| 20 | spot | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 travel | conj |
| 21 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spot | obj |
| 22 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 spot | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 travel | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | present | Squirrel monkeys | big troops | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in troops=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | follow | present | Squirrel monkeys not said here | capuchin monkeys | often property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme | |||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | Squirrel monkeys not said here | fruit trees | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic | ||||
| 4 | spot | present | many eyes | eagles | soon property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eagle=Destination |
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:16.
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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