Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles, sentence 12

A big coconut crab is about a metre across with its legs spread, so it would still fit in your arms; like other crabs it has ten legs, counting its two big claws.

Who acts: big coconut crab, legs, crab · What happens: be, spread, fit, have, count · To what, where: metre, arms, ten legs, two big claws

This is a sentence of the lesson «Reef giants and wanderers: whale sharks, mantas, dugongs and sea turtles» 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 (big coconut crab, legs, crab), 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	4 crab	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crab	amod
3	coconut	coconut	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crab	compound
4	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 metre	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 metre	cop
6	about	about	ADV	_	8 metre	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 metre	det
8	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	across	across	ADV	_	8 metre	advmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 spread	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 legs	nmod:poss
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 spread	nsubj
13	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 metre	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fit	punct
15	so	so	ADV	_	19 fit	advmod
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 fit	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fit	aux
18	still	still	ADV	_	19 fit	advmod
19	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 metre	parataxis
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 arms	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fit	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 has	punct
24	like	like	ADP	_	26 crabs	case
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 crabs	amod
26	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 has	obl
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 has	nsubj
28	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 fit	parataxis
29	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	30 legs	nummod
30	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 has	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 counting	punct
32	counting	count	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 has	conj
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 claws	nmod:poss
34	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 claws	nummod
35	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 claws	amod
36	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 counting	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 metre	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a big coconut crab	a metre			about, across property	tree rules
2	spread	participle	crab's legs					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fit	would	crab		your arms	still		vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in arm=Trajectory
4	have	present	crab	ten legs			like other crabs	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
5	count	gerund	crab not said here	crab's two big claws				vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=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:174-reef-giants-and-wanderers-whale-sharks-mantas-dugongs-and-sea-turtles.lesson:12.

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): R7-rel-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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