Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 7
The satanic leaf-tailed gecko has a body and tail that look like a dry curled leaf with nibbled edges; it has no eyelids and licks its eyes clean.
Who acts: satanic tailed gecko, body, gecko · What happens: tail, have, look, curl, nibble, lick · To what, where: body, eyelids, eyes
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 (satanic tailed gecko, body, gecko), 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 | 6 gecko | det |
| 2 | satanic | satanic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gecko | amod |
| 3 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tailed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 leaf | punct |
| 5 | tailed | tail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 gecko | amod |
| 6 | gecko | gecko | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 body | det |
| 9 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 has | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tail | cc |
| 11 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 body | conj |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 look | nsubj |
| 13 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 body | acl:relcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 leaf | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 leaf | det |
| 16 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 leaf | amod |
| 17 | curled | curl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 leaf | amod |
| 18 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 look | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 edges | case |
| 20 | nibbled | nibble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 edges | amod |
| 21 | edges | edge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 leaf | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 has | parataxis |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 eyelids | det |
| 26 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 has | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 licks | cc |
| 28 | licks | lick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 has | conj |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 licks | obj |
| 31 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 licks | xcomp |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tail | participle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | the satanic tailed gecko | a body and tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient | ||||
| 3 | look | present | a body and tail | like a dry curled leaf with nibbled edges | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | curl | participle | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | nibble | participle | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | have | present | gecko | no eyelids | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eyelid=Patient | ||||
| 7 | lick | present | gecko not said here | leaf's eyes | clean property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent eye=Source |
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: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): R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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