The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 16
Sally Lightfoot crabs are bright red crabs that leap from rock to rock, eat algae and pick ticks off marine iguanas.
Who acts: Sally crabs, bright red crabs · What happens: be, leap, eat, pick · To what, where: bright red crabs, rock, algae, ticks
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions» 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 (Sally crabs, bright red crabs), 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 | Sally | Sally | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 crabs | compound |
| 2 | Lightfoot | Lightfoot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Sally | flat |
| 3 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crabs | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 crabs | cop |
| 5 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crabs | amod |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 crabs | amod |
| 7 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 leap | nsubj |
| 9 | leap | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 crabs | acl:relcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 rock | case |
| 11 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leap | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 rock | case |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rock | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 eat | punct |
| 15 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 leap | conj |
| 16 | algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 eat | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pick | cc |
| 18 | pick | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 leap | conj |
| 19 | ticks | tick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pick | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 iguanas | case |
| 21 | marine | marine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 iguanas | amod |
| 22 | iguanas | iguana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 ticks | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 crabs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sally crabs | bright red crabs | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leap | present | bright red crabs | rock | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from rock=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | bright red crabs not said here | algae | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alga=Patient | ||||
| 4 | pick | present | bright red crabs not said here | ticks | off marine iguanas | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=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:180-the-galapagos-giant-tortoises-sea-iguanas-darwins-finches-and-tame-sea-lions.lesson:16.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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