The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 10
The jaguar has the strongest bite for its size of any big cat and can crack turtle shells and caiman skulls.
Who acts: jaguar · What happens: have, crack · To what, where: strongest bite, turtle shells
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider» 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 (jaguar), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jaguar | det |
| 2 | jaguar | jaguar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bite | det |
| 5 | strongest | strong | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 bite | amod |
| 6 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 size | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 size | nmod:poss |
| 9 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bite | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 cat | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 cat | det |
| 12 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cat | amod |
| 13 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 size | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crack | cc |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 crack | aux |
| 16 | crack | crack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 has | conj |
| 17 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shells | compound |
| 18 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crack | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 skulls | cc |
| 20 | caiman | caiman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 skulls | compound |
| 21 | skulls | skull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shells | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the jaguar | the strongest bite | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient | ||||
| 2 | crack | can | the jaguar not said here | turtle shells and caiman skulls | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.lesson:10.
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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