Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 2

With no hunters around, small animals can become bigger and birds can stop flying, like the heavy kakapo parrot that walks through the New Zealand forest at night.

Who acts: small animals, birds, heavy kakapo parrot · What happens: become, stop, fly, walk · To what, where: Zealand forest

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, birds, heavy kakapo parrot), 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 hunters	case
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 hunters	det
3	hunters	hunter	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 around	obl
4	around	around	ADV	_	9 become	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 around	punct
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animals	amod
7	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 become	nsubj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 become	aux
9	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 become	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stop	cc
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stop	nsubj
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 stop	aux
14	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 become	conj
15	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 stop	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 parrot	punct
17	like	like	ADP	_	21 parrot	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 parrot	det
19	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 parrot	amod
20	kakapo	kakapo	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 parrot	compound
21	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 flying	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 walks	nsubj
23	walks	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 parrot	acl:relcl
24	through	through	ADP	_	28 forest	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 forest	det
26	New	New	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 Zealand	amod
27	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 forest	compound
28	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walks	obl
29	at	at	ADP	_	30 night	case
30	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 walks	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 become	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	can	small animals			big property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	stop	can	birds				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	fly	gerund	birds not said here			like the heavy kakapo parrot	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	walk	present	the heavy kakapo parrot	the Zealand forest	night		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through forest=Trajectory

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:2.

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): no change. 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.

See the release 0.4.

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