The Amazon forest floor: leafcutters, army ants, tapirs, jaguars and the giant spider, sentence 16

Common vampire bats walk on the ground, make a tiny cut and lap a little blood, and their saliva stops the blood from clotting.

Who acts: Common vampire bats, saliva · What happens: walk, make, lap, stop, clot · To what, where: ground, tiny cut, little blood, blood

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 (Common vampire bats, saliva), 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	Common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bats	amod
2	vampire	vampire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bats	compound
3	bats	bat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 walk	nsubj
4	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walk	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 make	punct
9	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cut	det
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cut	amod
12	cut	cut	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 make	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 lap	cc
14	lap	lap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 cut	conj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 blood	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 blood	amod
17	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lap	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stops	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 stops	cc
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 saliva	nmod:poss
21	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stops	nsubj
22	stops	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 walk	conj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 blood	det
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stops	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	26 clotting	case
26	clotting	clot	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 stops	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	walk	present	Common vampire bats		the ground	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Trajectory
2	make	present	Common vampire bats not said here	a tiny cut		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cut=Product
3	lap	present	Common vampire bats not said here	a little blood		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
4	stop	present	bats's saliva	the blood		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality blood=Eventuality
5	clot	gerund				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:157-the-amazon-forest-floor.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-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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