Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 16
The giant armadillo can dig a big burrow in a night, and lizards, ocelots (small wild cats) and birds later shelter in it.
Who acts: giant armadillo, lizards · What happens: dig, shelter · To what, where: big burrow
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 (giant armadillo, lizards), 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 armadillo | det |
| 2 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 armadillo | amod |
| 3 | armadillo | armadillo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dig | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dig | aux |
| 5 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 burrow | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 burrow | amod |
| 8 | burrow | burrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dig | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dig | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lizards | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lizards | cc |
| 14 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 shelter | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ocelots | punct |
| 16 | ocelots | ocelot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lizards | conj |
| 17 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 20 cats | punct |
| 18 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cats | amod |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cats | amod |
| 20 | cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ocelots | appos |
| 21 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 20 cats | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 birds | cc |
| 23 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 lizards | conj |
| 24 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 25 shelter | advmod |
| 25 | shelter | shelter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dig | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 shelter | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | can | the giant armadillo | a big burrow | night | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent burrow=Theme | |||
| 2 | shelter | present | lizards and ocelots and birds | in armadillo; late property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
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: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): 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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