Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 2
Think of the hot sand on a beach in August that burns your feet: a sidewinder snake lifts most of its body off the sand, and silver ants run on long legs so their bodies stay above the hottest layer.
Who acts: you, beach, sidewinder snake, silver ants, bodies · What happens: think, burn, lift, run, stay · To what, where: feet, most, sand, long legs, hottest layer
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 (you, beach, sidewinder snake, silver ants), 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sand | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sand | det |
| 4 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sand | amod |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 beach | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 beach | det |
| 8 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sand | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 August | case |
| 10 | August | August | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 beach | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 burns | nsubj |
| 12 | burns | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 beach | acl:relcl |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feet | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 burns | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 lifts | punct |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 snake | det |
| 17 | sidewinder | sidewinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 snake | compound |
| 18 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lifts | nsubj |
| 19 | lifts | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | parataxis |
| 20 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 lifts | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 body | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 body | nmod:poss |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 most | nmod |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 sand | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sand | det |
| 26 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lifts | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 run | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 run | cc |
| 29 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ants | compound |
| 30 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 run | nsubj |
| 31 | run | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 lifts | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 legs | case |
| 33 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 legs | amod |
| 34 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 run | obl |
| 35 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 38 stay | mark |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 37 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 stay | nsubj |
| 38 | stay | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 run | advcl |
| 39 | above | above | ADP | _ | 42 layer | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 layer | det |
| 41 | hottest | hot | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 42 layer | amod |
| 42 | layer | layer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stay | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of the hot sand on a beach in August | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | burn | present | a beach in August | your feet | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lift | present | a sidewinder snake | most of snake's body | the sand | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent most=Theme off sand=Destination | |||
| 4 | run | present | silver ants | long legs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | stay | present | ants's bodies | the hottest layer | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above layer=Location |
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:2.
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, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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