Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 10
Tenrecs look like hedgehogs or shrews but are actually related to elephants and aardvarks, African animals that dig for ants.
Who acts: Tenrecs, African animals · What happens: look, be, dig
This is a sentence of the lesson «Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted» 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 (Tenrecs, African animals), 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 | Tenrecs | tenrec | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | nsubj |
| 2 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 4 hedgehogs | case |
| 4 | hedgehogs | hedgehog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 look | obl |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 shrews | cc |
| 6 | shrews | shrew | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hedgehogs | conj |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 related | cc |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 related | cop |
| 9 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 10 related | advmod |
| 10 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 look | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 elephants | case |
| 12 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 related | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 aardvarks | cc |
| 14 | aardvarks | aardvark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 elephants | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 animals | punct |
| 16 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 animals | amod |
| 17 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 elephants | appos |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 dig | nsubj |
| 19 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 animals | acl:relcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 ants | case |
| 21 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 dig | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | Tenrecs | like hedgehogs or shrews | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | present | Tenrecs not said here | to elephants and aardvarks; actually, related property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dig | present | African animals | for ants | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for ant=Theme |
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:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:10.
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. 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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