Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 17
Caimans' eyes glow red-orange in torchlight because a shiny layer behind the eye reflects light, and guides count caimans by pairs of glowing eyes.
Who acts: eyes, shiny layer, guides · What happens: glow, reflect, count · To what, where: red orange, torchlight, light, caimans
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 (eyes, shiny layer, guides), 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 | Caimans | caiman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Caimans | case |
| 3 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 glow | nsubj |
| 4 | glow | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 orange | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 red | punct |
| 7 | orange | orange | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glow | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 torchlight | case |
| 9 | torchlight | torchlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glow | obl |
| 10 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 reflects | mark |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 layer | det |
| 12 | shiny | shiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 layer | amod |
| 13 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reflects | nsubj |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 eye | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 eye | det |
| 16 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 layer | nmod |
| 17 | reflects | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glow | advcl |
| 18 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reflects | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 count | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 count | cc |
| 21 | guides | guide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 count | nsubj |
| 22 | count | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 glow | conj |
| 23 | caimans | caiman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 count | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 pairs | case |
| 25 | pairs | pair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 count | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 27 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 eyes | amod |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pairs | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 glow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | present | Caimans's eyes | red orange | torchlight | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent orange=Theme | |||
| 2 | reflect | present | a shiny layer behind the eye | light | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | count | present | guides | caimans | by pairs of glowing eyes | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caiman=Theme | |||
| 4 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «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:17.
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): R5-strong ×1. 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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