Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 1
With little food, big animals slowly become smaller over many generations, so elephants on some islands shrank to the size of a pony.
Who acts: big animals, elephants · What happens: become, shrink
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 (big animals, elephants), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 food | case |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 food | amod |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 become | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 food | punct |
| 5 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animals | amod |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 become | nsubj |
| 7 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 become | advmod |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 become | xcomp |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 generations | case |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 generations | amod |
| 12 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 smaller | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 elephants | punct |
| 14 | so | so | CCONJ | _ | 15 elephants | cc |
| 15 | elephants | elephant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shrank | nsubj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 islands | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 islands | det |
| 18 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 elephants | nmod |
| 19 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 become | parataxis |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 size | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 size | det |
| 22 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shrank | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 pony | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pony | det |
| 25 | pony | pony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 size | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 shrank | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present | big animals | with little food; slowly, small property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shrink | past | elephants on some islands | to the size of a pony result | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to size=Result |
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:1.
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): 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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