Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 11
Beavers build dams that make ponds where many other animals live, and one beaver dam in Canada is so big it can be seen in pictures taken from space.
Who acts: Beavers, dams, many other animals, one beaver dam · What happens: build, make, live, be, see, take · To what, where: dams, ponds, shoebill, pictures, space
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 (Beavers, dams, many other animals, one beaver dam), 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 | Beavers | beaver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | nsubj |
| 2 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dams | dam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 build | obj |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 make | nsubj |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dams | acl:relcl |
| 6 | ponds | pond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 live | advmod |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animals | amod |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 animals | amod |
| 10 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 live | nsubj |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ponds | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 big | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 big | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 dam | nummod |
| 15 | beaver | beaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dam | compound |
| 16 | dam | dam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 big | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 Canada | case |
| 18 | Canada | Canada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 dam | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 big | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 big | advmod |
| 21 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 build | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 seen | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 seen | aux:pass |
| 25 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 big | advcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 pictures | case |
| 27 | pictures | picture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seen | obl |
| 28 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 pictures | acl |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 space | case |
| 30 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taken | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 build | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | present | Beavers | dams | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dam=Product | ||||
| 2 | make | present | dams | ponds | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset pond=Product | ||||
| 3 | live | present | many other animals | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | present | one beaver dam in Canada | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | can · passive | shoebill | pictures | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | take | participle | pictures not said here | space | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from space=Initial_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:184-great-rivers-and-wetlands-nile-crocodiles-hippos-giant-catfish-and-the-pantanal.lesson:11.
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): no change. 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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