Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 1

Desert animals solve it in clever ways: some drink fog, some get all their water from food, some hide in burrows by day and come out at night.

Who acts: Desert animals, some · What happens: solve, drink, get, hide, come out · To what, where: desert, clever ways, fog, water, food, burrows

This is a sentence of the lesson «Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants» 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 (Desert animals, some), 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	Desert	desert	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 solve	nsubj
3	solve	solve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 solve	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 ways	case
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 ways	amod
7	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 solve	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 fog	punct
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 drink	nsubj
10	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 solve	parataxis
11	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 drink	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 get	punct
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 get	nsubj
14	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drink	conj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 water	det:predet
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 water	nmod:poss
17	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obj
18	from	from	ADP	_	19 food	case
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hide	punct
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 hide	nsubj
22	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 drink	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	24 burrows	case
24	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 hide	obl
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 day	case
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hide	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 come	cc
28	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 hide	conj
29	out	out	ADV	_	28 come	advmod
30	at	at	ADP	_	31 night	case
31	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 come	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 solve	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	solve	present	Desert animals	desert	clever ways			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic
2	drink	present	some	fog				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fog=Patient
3	get	present	some	animals's water	food			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from food=Source
4	hide	present	some		burrows	day		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=Location
5	come out	present	some not said here			night	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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:182-deserts-of-the-world-fennec-foxes-fog-drinking-beetles-camels-and-silver-ants.lesson:1.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×3. 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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