Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 12

Horned lizards can squirt blood from their eyes at dogs, foxes and coyotes; the blood tastes bad to them, but the lizards do not do it to birds.

Who acts: Horned lizards, blood, lizards · What happens: squirt, taste, not do · To what, where: blood, eyes

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 (Horned lizards, blood, lizards), 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	Horned	horned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lizards	amod
2	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 squirt	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 squirt	aux
4	squirt	squirt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 squirt	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 squirt	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 dogs	case
10	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 squirt	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 foxes	punct
12	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dogs	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 coyotes	cc
14	coyotes	coyote	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dogs	conj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 tastes	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 blood	det
17	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 tastes	nsubj
18	tastes	taste	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 squirt	parataxis
19	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 tastes	xcomp
20	to	to	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 bad	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 do	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 do	cc
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lizards	det
25	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 do	nsubj
26	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 do	advmod
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 squirt	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 do	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 birds	case
31	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 do	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 squirt	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	squirt	can	Horned lizards	blood	lizards's eyes	at dogs and foxes and coyotes	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination-Conative»: agent=Agent blood=Theme at dog=Destination
2	taste	present	the blood			bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	not do	present · do-support	the lizards	blood		to birds	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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:12.

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. 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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