Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins, sentence 15

The wandering albatross has the longest wingspan of any living bird, over three metres, and it can lock its wings in place so gliding uses almost no energy.

Who acts: wandering albatross, albatross · What happens: have, lock, glide, use · To what, where: longest wingspan, wings, place, energy

This is a sentence of the lesson «Antarctica: emperor huddles, krill, clear-blooded fish and stone-stealing penguins» 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 (wandering albatross, albatross), 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 albatross	det
2	wandering	wandering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 albatross	compound
3	albatross	albatross	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wingspan	det
6	longest	long	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 wingspan	amod
7	wingspan	wingspan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	11 bird	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 bird	det
10	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bird	compound
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wingspan	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 metres	punct
13	over	over	ADP	_	15 metres	case
14	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 metres	nummod
15	metres	metre	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wingspan	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 lock	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 lock	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lock	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 lock	aux
20	lock	lock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 has	conj
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wings	nmod:poss
22	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lock	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 place	case
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lock	obl
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 uses	advmod
26	gliding	glide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 uses	nsubj
27	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 lock	advcl
28	almost	almost	ADV	_	30 energy	advmod
29	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	30 energy	det
30	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 uses	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	present	the wandering albatross	the longest wingspan of any living bird and three metres		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wingspan=Patient
2	lock	can	albatross	albatross's wings	place	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	glide	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	use	present		no energy		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient

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:170-antarctica-emperor-huddles-krill-clear-blooded-fish-and-stone-stealing-penguins.lesson:15.

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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