Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 11

Baobabs have huge fat trunks that store water and short branches that look like roots; six of the eight kinds of baobab grow only in Madagascar.

Who acts: Baobabs, huge fat trunks, short branches, six · What happens: have, store, look, grow · To what, where: huge fat trunks, water, Madagascar

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 (Baobabs, huge fat trunks, short branches, six), 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	Baobabs	baobab	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trunks	amod
4	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 trunks	amod
5	trunks	trunk	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 store	nsubj
7	store	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 trunks	acl:relcl
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 store	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 branches	cc
10	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 branches	amod
11	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 trunks	conj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 look	nsubj
13	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 branches	acl:relcl
14	like	like	ADP	_	15 roots	case
15	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 look	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 grow	punct
17	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 grow	nsubj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 kinds	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 kinds	det
20	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 kinds	nummod
21	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 six	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 baobab	case
23	baobab	baobab	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kinds	nmod
24	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	parataxis
25	only	only	ADV	_	27 Madagascar	advmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 Madagascar	case
27	Madagascar	Madagascar	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 grow	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Baobabs	huge fat trunks and short branches			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trunk=Patient
2	store	present	huge fat trunks and short branches	water			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme
3	look	present	short branches			like roots	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	grow	present	six of the eight kinds of baobab		Madagascar		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in madagascar=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:164-madagascar-chameleons-geckos-tenrecs-baobabs-and-darwins-moth.lesson:11.

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 ×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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