The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 8

The okapi lives only in the Congo forest and is the giraffe's closest living relative; its stripy legs break up its outline in the shadows.

Who acts: okapi, stripy legs · What happens: live, be, break up · To what, where: Congo forest, closest living relative, outline, shadows

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 (okapi, stripy legs), 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	2 okapi	det
2	okapi	okapi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	nsubj
3	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	8 forest	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 forest	det
7	Congo	Congo	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 forest	compound
8	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 relative	cc
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 relative	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 giraffe	det
12	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 relative	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 giraffe	case
14	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 relative	amod
15	living	live	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 relative	amod
16	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lives	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 break	punct
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 legs	nmod:poss
19	stripy	stripy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 legs	amod
20	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 break	nsubj
21	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lives	parataxis
22	up	up	ADP	_	21 break	compound:prt
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 outline	nmod:poss
24	outline	outline	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 break	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 shadows	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 shadows	det
27	shadows	shadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 break	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lives	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	live	present	the okapi		the Congo forest	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location
2	is a	present	the okapi not said here	the giraffe's closest living relative		tree rules
3	break up	present	okapi's stripy legs	okapi's outline	the shadows	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outline=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:159-the-congo-rainforest.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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