The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 7
The African dwarf crocodile is one of the smallest crocodiles, usually under two metres, and hunts fish and frogs at night in forest streams.
Who acts: African dwarf crocodile · What happens: be, hunt · To what, where: one, fish, forest streams
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» 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 (African dwarf crocodile), 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 | 4 crocodile | det |
| 2 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crocodile | amod |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crocodile | amod |
| 4 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 crocodiles | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crocodiles | det |
| 9 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 crocodiles | amod |
| 10 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 metres | punct |
| 12 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 15 metres | advmod |
| 13 | under | under | ADP | _ | 15 metres | case |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 metres | nummod |
| 15 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 crocodiles | appos |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hunts | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 hunts | cc |
| 18 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | conj |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hunts | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 frogs | cc |
| 21 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 fish | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 night | case |
| 23 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hunts | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 streams | case |
| 25 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 streams | compound |
| 26 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hunts | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the African dwarf crocodile | one | of the smallest crocodiles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hunt | present | the African dwarf crocodile not said here | fish and frogs | forest streams | night | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fish=Theme in stream=Location |
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:160-the-congo-river.lesson:7.
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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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