Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 12
The Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean is one of the smallest reptiles, small enough to curl up on a coin.
Who acts: Jaragua dwarf gecko · What happens: be, curl up · To what, where: one, coin
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 (Jaragua dwarf gecko), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 gecko | det |
| 2 | Jaragua | Jaragua | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gecko | compound |
| 3 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gecko | amod |
| 4 | gecko | gecko | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 one | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Caribbean | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caribbean | det |
| 7 | Caribbean | Caribbean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gecko | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 one | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 reptiles | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 reptiles | det |
| 12 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 reptiles | amod |
| 13 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 gecko | punct |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reptiles | amod |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 small | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 curl | mark |
| 18 | curl | curl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 small | advcl |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 curl | compound:prt |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 coin | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 coin | det |
| 22 | coin | coin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 curl | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean | one | of the smallest reptiles | tree rules | |||
| 2 | curl up | to-infinitive | the Jaragua dwarf gecko of the Caribbean not said here | a coin | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme |
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:12.
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 ×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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