The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 15
Giant African land snails can grow shells longer than a child's hand and have thousands of tiny teeth on a ribbon called a radula.
Who acts: Giant African land snails, ribbon · What happens: grow, have, call · To what, where: shells, thousands, ribbon, radula · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants» 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 African land snails, ribbon), 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 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snails | amod |
| 2 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snails | amod |
| 3 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snails | compound |
| 4 | snails | snail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grow | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | aux |
| 6 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grow | obj |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 grow | advmod |
| 9 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 hand | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 child | det |
| 11 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 child | case |
| 13 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 longer | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 grow | conj |
| 16 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 teeth | case |
| 18 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 teeth | amod |
| 19 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 thousands | nmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 ribbon | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 ribbon | det |
| 22 | ribbon | ribbon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obl |
| 23 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ribbon | acl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 radula | det |
| 25 | radula | radula | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 called | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | can | Giant African land snails | shells | long property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shell=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | present | Giant African land snails not said here | thousands of tiny teeth | a ribbon | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a ribbon not said here | a radula | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent radula=Recipient |
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:159-the-congo-rainforest.lesson:15.
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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