Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 5
An anaconda kills by squeezing until the prey's blood stops flowing, not by crushing bones.
Who acts: anaconda, blood · What happens: kill, squeeze, stop, flow, not crush · To what, where: bones
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 (anaconda, blood), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 anaconda | det |
| 2 | anaconda | anaconda | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kills | nsubj |
| 3 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 squeezing | mark |
| 5 | squeezing | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 kills | advcl |
| 6 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 stops | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prey | det |
| 8 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 blood | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 prey | case |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stops | nsubj |
| 11 | stops | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 squeezing | advcl |
| 12 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 stops | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crushing | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 crushing | advmod |
| 15 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 16 crushing | mark |
| 16 | crushing | crush | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 squeezing | conj |
| 17 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 crushing | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 kills | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present | a anaconda | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | squeeze | gerund | a anaconda not said here | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stop | present | the prey's blood | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | flow | gerund | the prey's blood not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not crush | gerund | a anaconda not said here | bones | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient |
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:5.
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, R7-rel-agree ×4. 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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