The Galápagos: giant tortoises, sea iguanas, Darwin's finches and tame sea lions, sentence 9

Male blue-footed boobies show off their blue feet in a dance, and brighter blue feet show a healthy, well-fed bird that females prefer.

Who acts: Male footed boobies, brighter blue feet, females · What happens: show off, show, feed, prefer · To what, where: blue feet, healthy fed bird

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 (Male footed boobies, brighter blue feet, females), 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	Male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boobies	amod
2	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 footed	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 blue	punct
4	footed	foot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 boobies	amod
5	boobies	booby	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	nsubj
6	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 show	compound:prt
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 feet	nmod:poss
9	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feet	amod
10	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 show	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 dance	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 dance	det
13	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 show	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 show	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 show	cc
16	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 feet	amod
17	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 feet	amod
18	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 show	nsubj
19	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 show	conj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 bird	det
21	healthy	healthy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 bird	amod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bird	punct
23	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 fed	advmod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 well	punct
25	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 bird	amod
26	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 show	obj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 prefer	obj
28	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 prefer	nsubj
29	prefer	prefer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 bird	acl:relcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 show	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	show off	present	Male footed boobies	boobies's blue feet		in a dance	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Patient in dance=Topic
2	show	present	brighter blue feet		a healthy fed bird		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient
3	feed	participle				well property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	prefer	present	females	a healthy fed bird			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus

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:9.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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