The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 12

Many desert animals, like hopping mice, get almost all their water from their food, and waterholes fill with animals in the cool of morning and evening.

Who acts: Many desert animals, waterholes · What happens: hop, get, fill · To what, where: water, food, cool

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 (Many desert animals, waterholes), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
2	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 animals	compound
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 get	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mice	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 mice	case
6	hopping	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mice	amod
7	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 animals	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct
9	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	almost	almost	ADV	_	11 all	advmod
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 water	det:predet
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 water	nmod:poss
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 food	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 food	nmod:poss
16	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fill	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fill	cc
19	waterholes	waterhole	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fill	nsubj
20	fill	fill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 get	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 animals	case
22	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 fill	obl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 cool	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 cool	det
25	cool	cool	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fill	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 morning	case
27	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cool	nmod
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 evening	cc
29	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 morning	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 get	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hop	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	present	Many desert animals like hopping mice	animals's water	animals's food		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from food=Source
3	fill	present	waterholes		the cool of morning and evening	with animals	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with animal=Instrument

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:12.

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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