The Australian outback: red kangaroos, emus, thorny devils and runaway camels and toads, sentence 9

The frilled lizard spreads a frill around its neck, held open by rods of cartilage, the bendy stuff in your ears, like an umbrella, to look bigger and frightening.

Who acts: frilled lizard · What happens: spread, hold, look · To what, where: frill, 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 (frilled lizard), 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 lizard	det
2	frilled	frilled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lizard	amod
3	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spreads	nsubj
4	spreads	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 frill	det
6	frill	frill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spreads	obj
7	around	around	ADP	_	9 neck	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 neck	nmod:poss
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spreads	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 held	punct
11	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 spreads	advcl
12	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 held	xcomp
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 rods	case
14	rods	rod	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 held	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 cartilage	case
16	cartilage	cartilage	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rods	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stuff	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 stuff	det
19	bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 stuff	amod
20	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cartilage	appos
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ears	case
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ears	nmod:poss
23	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 stuff	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 umbrella	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 umbrella	case
26	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 umbrella	det
27	umbrella	umbrella	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spreads	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 look	punct
29	to	to	PART	_	30 look	mark
30	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 spreads	advcl
31	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 look	xcomp
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 frightening	cc
33	frightening	frightening	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bigger	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 spreads	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: narrate
voice: narrator
polarity: pos
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	spread	present	the frilled lizard	a frill	lizard's neck	like a umbrella	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent frill=Theme around neck=Destination
2	hold	participle	the frilled lizard not said here			by rods of cartilage; open property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by rod=Location
3	look	to-infinitive	the frilled lizard not said here			big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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:9.

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 ×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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