Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 1

Mountain animals have bodies made for this: thick fur and long tails against the cold, big lungs and special blood that grabs oxygen from thin air.

Who acts: Mountain animals, special blood · What happens: have, make, grab · To what, where: bodies, oxygen, thin air

This is a sentence of the lesson «Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders» 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 (Mountain animals, special blood), 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	Mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 animals	compound
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	nsubj
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 have	obj
5	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bodies	acl
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 made	obl
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 fur	punct
9	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fur	amod
10	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bodies	appos
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tails	cc
12	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tails	amod
13	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fur	conj
14	against	against	ADP	_	16 cold	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cold	det
16	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tails	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fur	punct
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lungs	amod
19	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fur	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 blood	cc
21	special	special	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 blood	amod
22	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lungs	conj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 grabs	nsubj
24	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 blood	acl:relcl
25	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grabs	obj
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 air	case
27	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 air	amod
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grabs	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	Mountain animals	bodies			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient
2	make	participle		bodies not said here		for this	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for this=Asset
3	grab	present	special blood	oxygen	thin air		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme from air=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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:1.

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. 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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