Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 3

That is why island animals are so strange, and also why they are in such danger when ships bring rats, cats and pigs they have never had to fear.

Who acts: That, animals, ships, rats · What happens: be, bring, not have, fear · To what, where: such danger, rats

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 (That, animals, ships, rats), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 strange	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 strange	cop
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 strange	advmod
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 animals	compound
5	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strange	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 strange	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 strange	advmod
8	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 danger	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 danger	cc
11	also	also	ADV	_	17 danger	advmod
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	17 danger	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 danger	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 danger	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 danger	case
16	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 danger	amod
17	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 strange	conj
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 bring	advmod
19	ships	ship	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bring	nsubj
20	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 danger	advcl
21	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 bring	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 cats	punct
23	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rats	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 pigs	cc
25	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rats	conj
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 had	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 had	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	29 had	advmod
29	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 rats	acl:relcl
30	to	to	PART	_	31 fear	mark
31	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 had	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 strange	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			strange property	tree rules
2	is	present	animals = animal		such danger		tree rules
3	bring	present	ships	rats and cats and pigs			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rat=Theme
4	not have	present · perfect	animals = animal	rats and cats and pigs not said here			tree rules
5	fear	to-infinitive	rats and cats and pigs not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:3.

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, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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