Masters of camouflage, sentence 11
Many moths rest still on trees looking like bark, and when factory soot darkened trees, dark moths survived better than pale ones.
Who acts: Many moths, trees, factory soot, dark moths · What happens: rest, look, darken, survive · To what, where: trees
This is a sentence of the lesson «Masters of camouflage» 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 (Many moths, trees, factory soot, dark moths), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moths | amod |
| 2 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rest | nsubj |
| 3 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 rest | advmod |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 trees | case |
| 6 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rest | obl |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 trees | acl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 bark | case |
| 9 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 survived | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 survived | cc |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 darkened | mark |
| 13 | factory | factory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 soot | compound |
| 14 | soot | soot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 darkened | nsubj |
| 15 | darkened | darken | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 survived | advcl |
| 16 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 darkened | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 moths | punct |
| 18 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 moths | amod |
| 19 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 survived | nsubj |
| 20 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rest | conj |
| 21 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 survived | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 ones | case |
| 23 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 ones | amod |
| 24 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 better | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | present | Many moths | trees | still | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on tree=Location | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | trees not said here | like bark | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | darken | past | factory soot | trees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tree=Patient | ||||
| 4 | survive | past | dark moths | well property | 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:189-masters-of-camouflage.lesson:11.
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.
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