Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave, sentence 10
Cave crickets have very long legs and feelers because in the dark touch is more useful than sight.
Who acts: Cave crickets, dark touch · What happens: have, be · To what, where: long legs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Caves: bat clouds, blind fish, the olm, glowworms and a sealed cave» 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 (Cave crickets, dark touch), 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 | Cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crickets | compound |
| 2 | crickets | cricket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 legs | amod |
| 6 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feelers | cc |
| 8 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 legs | conj |
| 9 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 useful | mark |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 touch | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 touch | det |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 touch | amod |
| 13 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 useful | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 useful | cop |
| 15 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 useful | advmod |
| 16 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 have | advcl |
| 17 | than | than | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 useful | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Cave crickets | long legs and feelers | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the dark touch | than sight; useful property | 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:179-caves-bat-clouds-blind-fish-the-olm-glowworms-and-a-sealed-cave.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): 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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