Strange islands: Komodo dragons, the dodo, red crabs, kakapos, giants and dwarfs, sentence 8
Every year tens of millions of red crabs on Christmas Island march from the forest to the sea to lay eggs, when the rains come and the moon is right; people close roads and build crab bridges for them.
Who acts: tens, rains, moon, people · What happens: march, lay, come, be, close, build · To what, where: forest, eggs, roads, crab bridges
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 (tens, rains, moon, people), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 year | det |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 march | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | tens | ten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 march | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 millions | case |
| 5 | millions | million | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 tens | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 crabs | case |
| 7 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 crabs | amod |
| 8 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 millions | nmod |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 march | case |
| 10 | Christmas | Christmas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Island | compound |
| 11 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 crabs | nmod |
| 12 | march | March | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 forest | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 forest | det |
| 15 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 march | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 sea | det |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 march | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lay | mark |
| 20 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 march | advcl |
| 21 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 lay | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 come | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 come | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rains | det |
| 25 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 come | nsubj |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 march | advcl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 right | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 moon | det |
| 29 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 right | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 right | cop |
| 31 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 come | conj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 march | punct |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 close | nsubj |
| 34 | close | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 march | parataxis |
| 35 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 close | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 build | cc |
| 37 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 close | conj |
| 38 | crab | crab | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 bridges | compound |
| 39 | bridges | bridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 build | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 build | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 march | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | present | tens of millions of red crabs Christmas Island | the forest | year | to the sea result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sea=Result | ||
| 2 | lay | to-infinitive | tens of millions of red crabs Christmas Island not said here | eggs | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result | ||||
| 3 | come | present | the rains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the moon | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | close | present | people | roads | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Patient | ||||
| 6 | build | present | people not said here | crab bridges | for People | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent bridge=Product for they=Asset |
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:8.
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 ×3, R6-punct-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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