Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 12
The capybara is the biggest rodent alive and can weigh as much as a grown man.
Who acts: capybara · What happens: be, weigh, grow · To what, where: biggest rodent
This is a sentence of the lesson «Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru» 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 (capybara), 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 capybara | det |
| 2 | capybara | capybara | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rodent | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rodent | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 rodent | det |
| 5 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 rodent | amod |
| 6 | rodent | rodent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rodent | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 weigh | cc |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 weigh | aux |
| 10 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 rodent | conj |
| 11 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 much | advmod |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 weigh | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 much | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rodent | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the capybara | the biggest rodent | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weigh | can | the capybara not said here | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales.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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