The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 16
After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.
Who acts: outback, frogs · What happens: burst, dig, wait · To what, where: flowers
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 (outback, frogs), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 rains | case |
| 2 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rains | amod |
| 3 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burst | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 outback | det |
| 5 | outback | outback | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 burst | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 burst | aux |
| 7 | burst | burst | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 flowers | case |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 burst | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dig | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dig | cc |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 frogs | det |
| 13 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dig | nsubj |
| 14 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 burst | conj |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dig | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wait | cc |
| 19 | wait | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 dig | conj |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wait | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 rain | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 rain | det |
| 23 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rain | amod |
| 24 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wait | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 burst | 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 | burst | can | the outback | flowers | after rare rains | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | dig | present | some frogs | into the ground | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into ground=Patient | ||||
| 3 | wait | present | some frogs not said here | year | for the next rain | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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:16.
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 ×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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