Amazon giants and tall tales: anacondas, caimans, electric eels and the candiru, sentence 8
When hunters killed most black caimans, piranhas grew in number, because caimans had been eating them.
Who acts: hunters, piranhas, caimans · What happens: kill, grow, eat · To what, where: most black caimans, number, piranhas
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 (hunters, piranhas, caimans), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 killed | advmod |
| 2 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 killed | nsubj |
| 3 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | advcl |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 caimans | amod |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 caimans | amod |
| 6 | caimans | caiman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 killed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 piranhas | punct |
| 8 | piranhas | piranha | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 number | case |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 eating | punct |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 eating | mark |
| 14 | caimans | caiman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 eating | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 eating | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 eating | aux |
| 17 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 grew | advcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eating | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | hunters | most black caimans | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caiman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | piranhas | number | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Location | ||||
| 3 | eat | past · perfect · progressive | caimans | piranhas = piranha | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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:8.
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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