Record-breakers: the loudest and the longest-lived, sentence 3

As a rule small, fast-living animals such as mice live only a few years and big, slow ones live long, but there are surprises, like a little rodent that lives over thirty years and a jellyfish that can turn young again.

Who acts: small living animals, big slow ones, surprises, little rodent, jellyfish · What happens: live, be, turn

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 (small living animals, big slow ones, surprises, little rodent), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 rule	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rule	det
3	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 live	obl:unmarked
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 animals	amod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fast	punct
6	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 small	conj
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 fast	punct
8	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 animals	amod
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 live	nsubj
10	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	12 mice	case
11	as	as	ADP	_	10 such	fixed
12	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 animals	nmod
13	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	only	only	ADV	_	17 years	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 years	det
16	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 years	amod
17	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 live	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 live	cc
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ones	amod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 big	punct
21	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 ones	amod
22	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 live	nsubj
23	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 live	conj
24	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 live	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 are	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 are	cc
27	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	28 are	expl
28	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 live	conj
29	surprises	surprise	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 are	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rodent	punct
31	like	like	ADP	_	34 rodent	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 rodent	det
33	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 rodent	amod
34	rodent	rodent	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 surprises	nmod
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 lives	nsubj
36	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 rodent	acl:relcl
37	over	over	ADV	_	38 thirty	advmod
38	thirty	thirty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	39 years	nummod
39	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lives	obl
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 jellyfish	cc
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 jellyfish	det
42	jellyfish	jellyfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 surprises	conj
43	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 turn	nsubj
44	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 turn	aux
45	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 jellyfish	acl:relcl
46	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 turn	xcomp
47	again	again	ADV	_	45 turn	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 live	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	gerund					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	present	small living animals such mice		year	as a rule	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	live	present	big slow ones			long property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	does	present	surprises like a little rodent and a jellyfish	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	live	present	a little rodent		year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	turn	can	a jellyfish		again	young property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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:3.

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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×5, 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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