Great rivers and wetlands: Nile crocodiles, hippos, giant catfish and the Pantanal, sentence 4

Nile crocodiles wait at places where wildebeest and zebras cross rivers to reach new grass, and after a big meal a crocodile can go many months without eating.

Who acts: Nile crocodiles, wildebeest, crocodile · What happens: wait, cross, reach, go, eat · To what, where: places, rivers, new grass

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 (Nile crocodiles, wildebeest, crocodile), 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	Nile	Nile	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crocodiles	compound
2	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	nsubj
3	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 places	case
5	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wait	obl
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 cross	advmod
7	wildebeest	wildebeest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cross	nsubj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 zebras	cc
9	zebras	zebra	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wildebeest	conj
10	cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 places	acl:relcl
11	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 cross	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 reach	mark
13	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cross	advcl
14	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 grass	amod
15	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reach	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 go	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 go	cc
18	after	after	ADP	_	21 meal	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 meal	det
20	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 meal	amod
21	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 crocodile	det
23	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 go	nsubj
24	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 go	aux
25	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wait	conj
26	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 months	amod
27	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 go	obl
28	without	without	SCONJ	_	29 eating	mark
29	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 go	advcl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wait	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	wait	present	Nile crocodiles		places		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at place=Location
2	cross	present	wildebeest and zebras	rivers			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
3	reach	to-infinitive	wildebeest and zebras not said here	new grass			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent grass=Theme
4	go	can	a crocodile			after a big meal; month	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	eat	gerund	a crocodile not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:4.

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): R1-cc-next ×2, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2. 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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