Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest, sentence 13

Some soldier termites press twisted jaws together until they slip, like snapping fingers, and this snap is one of the fastest movements known in any animal.

Who acts: soldier termites, jaws, snap · What happens: press, twisted, slip, snap, be, know · To what, where: twisted jaws, one, fastest movements

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the fastest and the slowest» 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 (soldier termites, jaws, snap), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 termites	det
2	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 termites	compound
3	termites	termite	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 press	nsubj
4	press	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twisted	twisted	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 jaws	amod
6	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 press	obj
7	together	together	ADV	_	4 press	advmod
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	10 slip	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 slip	nsubj
10	slip	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 press	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 slip	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 fingers	case
13	snapping	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 fingers	amod
14	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 slip	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 one	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 one	cc
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 snap	det
18	snap	snap	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 one	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 one	cop
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 press	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 movements	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 movements	det
23	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 movements	amod
24	movements	movement	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 one	nmod
25	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 movements	acl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 animal	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 animal	det
28	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 known	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 press	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	press	present	some soldier termites	twisted jaws	together property	vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jaw=Theme
2	twisted	participle				tree rules
3	slip	present	jaws = jaw		like snapping fingers	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	snap	gerund				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is a	present	this snap	one	of the fastest movements	tree rules
6	know	participle		the fastest movements not said here	in any animal	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:185-record-breakers-the-fastest-and-the-slowest.lesson:13.

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): R8-pos-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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