The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 10
Some termites in northern Australia build tall flat mounds, called magnetic termite mounds, lined up north to south, which helps keep the inside cooler than the outside.
Who acts: termites, tall flat mounds · What happens: build, call, line up, help, keep · To what, where: tall flat mounds, magnetic termite mounds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads» 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 (termites, tall flat mounds), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 termites | det |
| 2 | termites | termite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 build | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 Australia | case |
| 4 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Australia | amod |
| 5 | Australia | Australia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 termites | nmod |
| 6 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mounds | amod |
| 8 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mounds | amod |
| 9 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 build | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mounds | acl |
| 12 | magnetic | magnetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mounds | amod |
| 13 | termite | termite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 mounds | compound |
| 14 | mounds | mound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 called | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lined | punct |
| 16 | lined | line | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 mounds | acl |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 16 lined | compound:prt |
| 18 | north | north | ADV | _ | 16 lined | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 south | case |
| 20 | south | south | ADV | _ | 18 north | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 helps | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 helps | nsubj |
| 23 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 build | advcl:relcl |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 helps | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 inside | det |
| 26 | inside | inside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cooler | amod |
| 27 | cooler | cool | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 keep | xcomp |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 30 outside | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 outside | det |
| 30 | outside | outside | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 cooler | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 build | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | some termites in northern Australia | tall flat mounds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset mound=Product | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | tall flat mounds not said here | magnetic termite mounds | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mound=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | line up | participle | tall flat mounds not said here | north property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | help | present | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | keep | infinitive | cool property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:165-the-australian-outback-kangaroos-emus-thorny-devils-and-runaway-toads.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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