Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 14

The coral reef pygmy goby lives about eight weeks, one of the shortest lives of any animal with a backbone, and some adult mayflies live only a few hours.

Who acts: coral pygmy goby, adult mayflies · What happens: live

This is a sentence of the lesson «Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived» 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 (coral pygmy goby, adult mayflies), 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	5 goby	det
2	coral	coral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 goby	amod
3	reef	reef	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pygmy	compound
4	pygmy	pygmy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 goby	compound
5	goby	goby	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lives	nsubj
6	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	about	about	ADV	_	8 eight	advmod
8	eight	eight	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 weeks	nummod
9	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lives	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 weeks	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 lives	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 lives	det
14	shortest	short	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 lives	amod
15	lives	life	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 one	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 animal	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 animal	det
18	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lives	nmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 backbone	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 backbone	det
21	backbone	backbone	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 animal	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 live	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 live	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 mayflies	det
25	adult	adult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mayflies	amod
26	mayflies	mayfly	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 live	nsubj
27	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 lives	conj
28	only	only	ADV	_	31 hours	advmod
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 hours	det
30	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 hours	amod
31	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 live	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lives	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the coral pygmy goby				week		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	some adult mayflies				hour		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived.lesson:14.

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 ×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.

See the release 0.4.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/187-record-breakers-the-loudest-and-the-longest-lived/14/