Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 5
Fennec foxes can go a long time without drinking, because they get water from their food.
Who acts: Fennec foxes, foxes · What happens: go, drink, get · To what, where: water, food
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 (Fennec foxes, foxes), 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 | Fennec | fennec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 foxes | compound |
| 2 | foxes | fox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 time | det |
| 6 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 time | amod |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 9 drinking | mark |
| 9 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 go | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
| 11 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 13 get | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 get | nsubj |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | advcl |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 food | nmod:poss |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 get | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | can | Fennec foxes | time | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | gerund | Fennec foxes not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get | present | foxes = fox | water | foxes's food | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from food=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:5.
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, 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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