Mountains of the world: snow leopards, high-flying geese, condors and Everest spiders, sentence 12

Llamas and alpacas live in the Andes; their blood carries oxygen well, and they spit mostly at each other to settle arguments.

Who acts: Llamas, blood · What happens: live, carry, spit, settle · To what, where: Andes, oxygen, each, arguments

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 (Llamas, 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	Llamas	llama	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 alpacas	cc
3	alpacas	alpaca	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Llamas	conj
4	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 Andes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Andes	det
7	Andes	Andes	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 live	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 oxygen	punct
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 blood	nmod:poss
10	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carries	nsubj
11	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 live	parataxis
12	oxygen	oxygen	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 carries	obj
13	well	well	ADV	_	11 carries	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 spit	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 spit	cc
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spit	nsubj
17	spit	spit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 live	conj
18	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	17 spit	advmod
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 each	case
20	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	17 spit	obl
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 each	fixed
22	to	to	PART	_	23 settle	mark
23	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 spit	advcl
24	arguments	argument	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 settle	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Llamas and alpacas		the Andes		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in andes=Location
2	carry	present	Llamas's blood	oxygen		well property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme
3	spit	present	Llamas = llama		each	mostly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	settle	to-infinitive	Llamas = llama not said here	arguments			vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme argument=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:183-mountains-of-the-world-snow-leopards-high-flying-geese-condors-and-everest-spiders.lesson:12.

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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