Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 10

The shoebill is a huge bird with a beak like a shoe that stands still for hours waiting for lungfish to come up to breathe, and it clatters its beak loudly.

Who acts: shoebill, shoe · What happens: be, stand, wait, come up, breathe, clatter · To what, where: huge bird, beak

This is a sentence of the lesson «Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal» 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 (shoebill, shoe), 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	2 shoebill	det
2	shoebill	shoebill	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
5	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bird	amod
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 beak	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 beak	det
9	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bird	nmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 shoe	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 shoe	det
12	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 beak	nmod
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 stands	nsubj
14	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 shoe	acl:relcl
15	still	still	ADV	_	14 stands	advmod
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 hours	case
17	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 stands	obl
18	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 stands	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 lungfish	case
20	lungfish	lungfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 waiting	obl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 come	mark
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 waiting	advcl
23	up	up	PART	_	22 come	compound:prt
24	to	to	PART	_	25 breathe	mark
25	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 come	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 clatters	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 clatters	cc
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 clatters	nsubj
29	clatters	clatter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	conj
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 beak	nmod:poss
31	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 clatters	obj
32	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	29 clatters	advmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the shoebill	a huge bird		with a beak like a shoe	tree rules
2	stand	present	a shoe		still; hour		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wait	gerund	a shoe not said here			for lungfish	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come up	to-infinitive	a shoe not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	breathe	to-infinitive	a shoe not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	clatter	present	shoebill	shoebill's beak		loudly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beak=Theme

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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:10.

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. 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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