Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 14

The Gila monster is a venomous lizard that stores fat in its thick tail and eats big meals only a few times a year; a medicine for diabetes was made from a chemical in its saliva.

Who acts: Gila monster, venomous lizard · What happens: be, store, eat, make · To what, where: venomous lizard, fat, thick tail, big meals, medicine, chemical

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 (Gila monster, venomous lizard), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 monster	det
2	Gila	Gila	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 monster	compound
3	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lizard	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lizard	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lizard	det
6	venomous	venomous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lizard	amod
7	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 stores	nsubj
9	stores	store	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lizard	acl:relcl
10	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stores	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 tail	case
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 tail	nmod:poss
13	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tail	amod
14	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stores	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 eats	cc
16	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 stores	conj
17	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 meals	amod
18	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eats	obj
19	only	only	ADV	_	22 times	advmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 times	det
21	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 times	amod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eats	obl
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 times	nmod:unmarked
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 medicine	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 medicine	det
27	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	nsubj:pass
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 diabetes	case
29	diabetes	diabetes	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 medicine	nmod
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 made	aux:pass
31	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lizard	parataxis
32	from	from	ADP	_	34 chemical	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 chemical	det
34	chemical	chemical	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 made	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 saliva	case
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 saliva	nmod:poss
37	saliva	saliva	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 chemical	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lizard	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the Gila monster	a venomous lizard			tree rules
2	store	present	a venomous lizard	fat	monster's thick tail		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent fat=Theme in tail=Location
3	eat	present	a venomous lizard not said here	big meals		time	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient
4	make	past · passive		a medicine for diabetes	a chemical in monster's saliva		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: subject=Product from chemical=Material

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:14.

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. 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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