Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers, sentence 10
Saltwater crocodiles are the largest living reptiles, live in both salt and fresh water, swim far out to sea, and are the most dangerous crocodiles for people.
Who acts: Saltwater crocodiles · What happens: be, live, swim · To what, where: largest living reptiles, salt, dangerous crocodiles
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mangroves: trees in salt water, mudskippers, archerfish and swimming tigers» 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 (Saltwater crocodiles), 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 | Saltwater | saltwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crocodiles | compound |
| 2 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reptiles | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reptiles | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 reptiles | det |
| 5 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 reptiles | amod |
| 6 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reptiles | compound |
| 7 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reptiles | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 salt | case |
| 11 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 12 salt | cc:preconj |
| 12 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 water | cc |
| 14 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 water | amod |
| 15 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 salt | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swim | punct |
| 17 | swim | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 reptiles | conj |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 out | advmod |
| 19 | out | out | ADV | _ | 17 swim | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 sea | case |
| 21 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 out | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 swim | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 crocodiles | cc |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 crocodiles | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 crocodiles | det |
| 26 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 27 dangerous | advmod |
| 27 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 crocodiles | amod |
| 28 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 reptiles | conj |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 crocodiles | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reptiles | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Saltwater crocodiles | the largest living reptiles and the dangerous crocodiles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | Saltwater crocodiles not said here | salt and fresh water | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in salt=Location | ||||
| 3 | swim | present | Saltwater crocodiles not said here | out property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | Saltwater crocodiles not said here | the dangerous crocodiles | for people | tree rules |
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:178-mangroves-trees-in-salt-water-mudskippers-archerfish-and-swimming-tigers.lesson:10.
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 ×2, R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-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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