Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest, sentence 15

The giant Gippsland earthworm of Australia can grow over a metre long, lives deep in wet soil, and people can hear it gurgling in its burrow.

Who acts: giant Gippsland earthworm, people, earthworm · What happens: grow, live, hear, gurgle · To what, where: wet soil, earthworm, burrow

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the biggest and the smallest» 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 (giant Gippsland earthworm, people, earthworm), 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	4 earthworm	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 earthworm	amod
3	Gippsland	Gippsland	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 earthworm	compound
4	earthworm	earthworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grow	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Australia	case
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 earthworm	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	aux
8	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 metre	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 metre	det
11	metre	metre	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 long	obl
12	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 grow	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 lives	punct
14	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 grow	conj
15	deep	deep	ADV	_	14 lives	advmod
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 soil	case
17	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 soil	amod
18	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 lives	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 hear	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hear	cc
21	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 hear	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 hear	aux
23	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 grow	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 hear	obj
25	gurgling	gurgle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 hear	xcomp
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 burrow	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 burrow	nmod:poss
28	burrow	burrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 gurgling	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 grow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow	can	the giant Gippsland earthworm of Australia			long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	the giant Gippsland earthworm of Australia not said here		wet soil	deep property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in soil=Location
3	hear	can	people	earthworm			tree rules
4	gurgle	gerund	earthworm not said here		metre's burrow		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in burrow=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:186-record-breakers-the-biggest-and-the-smallest.lesson:15.

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 ×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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