Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 16

Male sandgrouse soak their belly feathers at a waterhole and fly many kilometres back to their chicks, which drink from the wet feathers.

Who acts: Male sandgrouse, chicks · What happens: soak, fly back, drink · To what, where: belly feathers, waterhole, many kilometres, chicks, wet feathers

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 (Male sandgrouse, chicks), 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	Male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sandgrouse	amod
2	sandgrouse	sandgrouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 soak	nsubj
3	soak	soak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 feathers	nmod:poss
5	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feathers	compound
6	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 soak	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 waterhole	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 waterhole	det
9	waterhole	waterhole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soak	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 fly	cc
11	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 soak	conj
12	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 kilometres	amod
13	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fly	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	11 fly	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 chicks	case
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 chicks	nmod:poss
17	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 fly	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 drink	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 drink	nsubj
20	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 chicks	acl:relcl
21	from	from	ADP	_	24 feathers	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 feathers	det
23	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 feathers	amod
24	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 drink	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 soak	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	soak	present	Male sandgrouse	sandgrouse's belly feathers		a waterhole	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Source
2	fly back	infinitive	Male sandgrouse not said here	many kilometres	kilometres's chicks		vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme to chick=Destination
3	drink	present	kilometres's chicks			the wet feathers	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from feather=Source

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:16.

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): R8-pos-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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