The Congo rainforest: gorillas, bonobos, okapis and forest elephants, sentence 9
The okapi's long tongue can reach its own eyes and ears to clean them.
Who acts: long tongue · What happens: reach, clean · To what, where: own eyes, eyes
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 (long tongue), 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 | 5 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 okapi | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tongue | amod |
| 5 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reach | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 reach | aux |
| 7 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 eyes | amod |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reach | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ears | cc |
| 12 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eyes | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 clean | mark |
| 14 | clean | clean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 reach | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 clean | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reach | 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 | reach | can | the okapi's long tongue | okapi's own eyes and ears | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | clean | to-infinitive | the okapi's long tongue not said here | eyes = eye | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: 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:159-the-congo-rainforest.lesson:9.
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): no change. 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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