The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 8
The thorny devil has tiny grooves between its spines that pull water from damp sand up to its mouth, and it has a false head on its neck that it shows when attacked.
Who acts: thorny devil, spines, devil, it · What happens: have, pull, show, attack · To what, where: tiny grooves, water, damp sand, false head, neck
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 (thorny devil, spines, devil, it), 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 | 3 devil | det |
| 2 | thorny | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 devil | amod |
| 3 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 grooves | amod |
| 6 | grooves | groove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obj |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 spines | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 spines | nmod:poss |
| 9 | spines | spine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 grooves | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 pull | nsubj |
| 11 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 spines | acl:relcl |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pull | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 sand | case |
| 14 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sand | amod |
| 15 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pull | obl |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 19 mouth | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 mouth | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pull | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 has | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 has | cc |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 has | nsubj |
| 23 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 head | det |
| 25 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 head | amod |
| 26 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 has | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 neck | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 neck | nmod:poss |
| 29 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 head | nmod |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 shows | obj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 shows | nsubj |
| 32 | shows | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 head | acl:relcl |
| 33 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 34 attacked | mark |
| 34 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 shows | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 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 thorny devil | tiny grooves | between devil's spines | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent groove=Patient | |||
| 2 | pull | present | devil's spines | water | damp sand | to devil's mouth | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from sand=Initial_Location to mouth=Destination | ||
| 3 | have | present | devil | a false head | devil's neck | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 4 | show | present | it | a false head | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | attack | participle | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V»: 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: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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