Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 4
Tasmanian devils are the biggest living meat-eating marsupials and scavenge as well as hunt.
Who acts: Tasmanian devils · What happens: be, live, eat, scavenge · To what, where: marsupials
This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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 (Tasmanian devils), 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 | Tasmanian | tasmanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 devils | amod |
| 2 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 biggest | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 biggest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 biggest | det |
| 5 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 6 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 biggest | acl |
| 7 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 eating | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 meat | punct |
| 9 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 living | conj |
| 10 | marsupials | marsupial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 eating | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 scavenge | cc |
| 12 | scavenge | scavenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 biggest | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=ADV | 12 scavenge | advmod |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 as | fixed |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 hunt | case |
| 16 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 scavenge | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 biggest | 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 | is | present | Tasmanian devils | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | marsupials | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marsupial=Patient | |||||
| 4 | scavenge | infinitive | Tasmanian devils not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: 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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:4.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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