Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 15

A kiwi lays an egg about one fifth of the mother's own weight, so the chick hatches strong and can look after itself early, and the kiwi is the only bird with nostrils at the tip of its beak, used to smell worms.

Who acts: kiwi, chick · What happens: lay, hatch, look, be, use, smell · To what, where: egg, only bird, worms

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 (kiwi, chick), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 kiwi	det
2	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lays	nsubj
3	lays	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 egg	det
5	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lays	obj
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 fifth	case
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 fifth	nummod
8	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 egg	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	14 weight	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 mother	det
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 weight	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 mother	case
13	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 weight	amod
14	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fifth	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hatches	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	19 hatches	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chick	det
18	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hatches	nsubj
19	hatches	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 lays	conj
20	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 hatches	xcomp
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 look	cc
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 look	aux
23	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hatches	conj
24	after	after	ADP	_	25 itself	case
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 look	obl
26	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 look	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bird	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bird	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 kiwi	det
30	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 bird	nsubj
31	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 bird	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 bird	det
33	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 bird	amod
34	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lays	parataxis
35	with	with	ADP	_	36 nostrils	case
36	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 bird	nmod
37	at	at	ADP	_	39 tip	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 tip	det
39	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 nostrils	nmod
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 beak	case
41	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 beak	nmod:poss
42	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tip	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tip	punct
44	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 bird	acl:relcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 smell	mark
46	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 used	xcomp
47	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 smell	obj
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lays	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lay	present	a kiwi	a egg		about one fifth of the mother's own weight	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme about fifth=Destination
2	hatch	present	the chick			strong property	vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	look	can	the chick not said here		after chick	early property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	is a	present	the kiwi	the only bird		with nostrils at the tip of chick's beak	tree rules
5	use	participle		the only bird not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	smell	to-infinitive		worms			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer worm=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:181-strange-islands-komodo-dragons-the-dodo-red-crabs-kakapos-giants-and-dwarfs.lesson:15.

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, 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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