Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 5
A contagious (catching) face cancer has killed many devils, and scientists keep healthy groups of devils safe to save the species.
Who acts: contagious catching face cancer, scientists · What happens: kill, keep, save · To what, where: many devils, healthy groups, species
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 (contagious catching face cancer, scientists), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cancer | det |
| 2 | contagious | contagious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cancer | amod |
| 3 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 4 catching | punct |
| 4 | catching | catching | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cancer | compound |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 4 catching | punct |
| 6 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cancer | compound |
| 7 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 killed | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | aux |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 devils | amod |
| 11 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 killed | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keep | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 keep | cc |
| 14 | scientists | scientist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | nsubj |
| 15 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 killed | conj |
| 16 | healthy | healthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 groups | amod |
| 17 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 keep | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 devils | case |
| 19 | devils | devil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 groups | nmod |
| 20 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 keep | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 save | mark |
| 22 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 safe | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 species | det |
| 24 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 save | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · perfect | a contagious catching face cancer | many devils | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent devil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | scientists | healthy groups of devils | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent group=Theme | |||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | scientists not said here | the species | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent species=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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:5.
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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