Madagascar: chameleons, leaf-tailed geckos, tenrecs, baobabs and a moth Darwin predicted, sentence 8
The male giraffe weevil has a neck several times longer than its body, and it is found only in Madagascar.
Who acts: male giraffe weevil · What happens: have, find · To what, where: neck, body, 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 (male giraffe weevil), 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 weevil | det |
| 2 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 weevil | amod |
| 3 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weevil | compound |
| 4 | weevil | weevil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 neck | det |
| 7 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| 8 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 times | amod |
| 9 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 longer | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 neck | amod |
| 11 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 body | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 longer | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | aux:pass |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 has | conj |
| 19 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 Madagascar | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 Madagascar | case |
| 21 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the male giraffe weevil | a neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient | ||||
| 2 | find | present · passive | body | Madagascar | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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:8.
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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