Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 13
The horned frog has a mouth nearly as wide as its body, grabs anything that fits, even mice, and is nicknamed the Pac-Man frog.
Who acts: horned frog · What happens: have, grab, fit, nickname · To what, where: mouth, anything, Man frog
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 (horned frog), 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 | 3 frog | det |
| 2 | horned | horned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 frog | amod |
| 3 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 mouth | det |
| 6 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 9 wide | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 wide | advmod |
| 9 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mouth | amod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 body | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wide | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grabs | punct |
| 14 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 grabs | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 fits | nsubj |
| 17 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 anything | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 mice | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 mice | advmod |
| 20 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 anything | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nicknamed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 nicknamed | cc |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 nicknamed | aux:pass |
| 24 | nicknamed | nickname | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 grabs | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 frog | det |
| 26 | Pac | pac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Man | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Pac | punct |
| 28 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 frog | compound |
| 29 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nicknamed | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 horned frog | a mouth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient | ||||
| 2 | grab | present | the horned frog not said here | anything | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fit | present | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | nickname | present · passive | the horned frog not said here | the Man frog | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP» |
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:13.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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