Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 11

On islands with no predators, some small animals become giants, like the giant rats of Flores and giant tortoises; this is called island gigantism.

Who acts: small animals · What happens: become, call · To what, where: giants, islands, this · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (small 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	On	on	ADP	_	2 islands	case
2	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 become	obl
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 predators	case
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 predators	det
5	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 islands	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 become	punct
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	9 animals	det
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 become	nsubj
10	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 called	parataxis
11	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 become	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 rats	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	16 rats	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 rats	det
15	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 rats	amod
16	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 giants	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Flores	case
18	Flores	Flores	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 rats	nmod
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 tortoises	cc
20	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 tortoises	amod
21	tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 Flores	conj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 called	punct
23	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 called	nsubj:pass
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 called	aux:pass
25	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
26	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 gigantism	compound
27	gigantism	gigantism	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 called	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 become	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	become	present	some small animals	giants like the giant rats of Flores and giant tortoises		islands with no predators			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	call speech: assert	present · passive		this					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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:11.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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