Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 0

An island is like a small world cut off by the sea: only the animals that can fly, swim or float there arrive, and then they change on their own for thousands of years.

Who acts: island, animals · What happens: be, cut off, fly, swim, float, arrive · To what, where: small world, own

This is a sentence of the lesson «Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs» 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 (island, animals), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 island	det
2	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 world	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 world	cop
4	like	like	ADP	_	7 world	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 world	det
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 world	amod
7	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 world	acl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 cut	compound:prt
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 sea	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 sea	det
12	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cut	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 world	punct
14	only	only	ADV	_	16 animals	advmod
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 animals	det
16	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 arrive	nsubj
17	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 fly	nsubj
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 fly	aux
19	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 animals	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 swim	punct
21	swim	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fly	conj
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 float	cc
23	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 fly	conj
24	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 float	advmod
25	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 world	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 change	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 change	cc
28	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 change	advmod
29	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 change	nsubj
30	change	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 arrive	conj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 own	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 own	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 change	obl
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 thousands	case
35	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 change	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 years	case
37	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 thousands	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 world	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	a island				like a small world	tree rules
2	cut off	participle		a small world not said here			by the sea	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	fly	can	the animals					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	swim	infinitive	the animals not said here					vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	float	infinitive	the animals not said here		there			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	arrive	infinitive	the animals					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	change	present	animals = animal		animals's own	then	for thousands of years	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:0.

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. 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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