Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 7
The sidewinder snake moves sideways and touches the hot sand at only two points, leaving J-shaped tracks.
Who acts: sidewinder snake · What happens: move, touch, leave, shape · To what, where: hot sand, two points, shaped tracks
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 (sidewinder snake), 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 snake | det |
| 2 | sidewinder | sidewinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 snake | compound |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moves | nsubj |
| 4 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 4 moves | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 touches | cc |
| 7 | touches | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 moves | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sand | det |
| 9 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 sand | amod |
| 10 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 touches | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 points | case |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 points | advmod |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 points | nummod |
| 14 | points | point | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 touches | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 leaving | punct |
| 16 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 touches | advcl |
| 17 | J | J | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 shaped | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 shaped | punct |
| 19 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tracks | amod |
| 20 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 leaving | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | the sidewinder snake | sideways property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | touch | present | the sidewinder snake not said here | the hot sand | two points | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sand=Co-Theme | |||
| 3 | leave | gerund | the sidewinder snake not said here | shaped tracks | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent track=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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:7.
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, 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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