The Amazon canopy: howlers, harpy eagles, toucans, dart frogs and sloth gardens, sentence 5
Howlers rest most of the day, because their leafy food gives little energy.
Who acts: Howlers, leafy food · What happens: rest, give · To what, where: most, little energy
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 (Howlers, leafy food), 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 | Howlers | howler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rest | nsubj |
| 2 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 rest | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 most | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gives | punct |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 gives | mark |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 food | nmod:poss |
| 10 | leafy | leafy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 food | amod |
| 11 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gives | nsubj |
| 12 | gives | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rest | advcl |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 energy | amod |
| 14 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gives | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rest | 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 | rest | present | Howlers | most of the day | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location most=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | present | Howlers's leafy food | little energy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme |
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:5.
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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