Deserts of the world: fennec foxes, fog-drinking beetles, camels and silver ants, sentence 9

Saharan silver ants come out at the hottest time of day to find animals killed by the heat, while the lizards that hunt them hide from it; silver hairs reflect sunlight, and they can run nearly a metre a second.

Who acts: Saharan silver ants, lizards, hairs · What happens: come out, find, kill, hunt, hide, reflect · To what, where: animals, lizards, heat, sunlight, metre

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 (Saharan silver ants, lizards, hairs), 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	Saharan	Saharan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ants	amod
2	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ants	compound
3	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	nsubj
4	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	out	out	ADV	_	4 come	advmod
6	at	at	ADP	_	9 time	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 come	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 day	case
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 find	mark
13	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 come	advcl
14	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 find	obj
15	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 animals	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 heat	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 heat	det
18	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 killed	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 reflect	punct
20	while	while	SCONJ	_	26 hide	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lizards	det
22	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 reflect	nsubj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 hunt	nsubj
24	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 lizards	acl:relcl
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 hunt	obj
26	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 hunt	xcomp
27	from	from	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hide	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 reflect	punct
30	silver	silver	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hairs	compound
31	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 reflect	nsubj
32	reflect	reflect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 find	conj
33	sunlight	sunlight	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 reflect	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 run	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 run	cc
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 run	nsubj
37	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 run	aux
38	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 reflect	conj
39	nearly	nearly	ADV	_	41 metre	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 metre	det
41	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 run	obj
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 second	det
43	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 run	obl:unmarked
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come out	present	Saharan silver ants			time	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	find	to-infinitive	Saharan silver ants not said here	animals				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Topic
3	kill	participle		animals not said here			by the heat	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	hunt	present	the lizards	lizards = lizard				tree rules
5	hide	infinitive	the lizards not said here		heat			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from it=Beneficiary
6	reflect	present	the lizards	sunlight				tree rules
7	run	can	hairs = hair	a metre		second		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme metre=Trajectory

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:9.

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 ×2, 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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