Masters of camouflage, sentence 5
Stick insects look like twigs and sway like branches in the wind, and the longest insect in the world is a Chinese stick insect over sixty centimetres long.
Who acts: Stick insects, longest insect · What happens: look, be · To what, where: Chinese stick insect
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 (Stick insects, longest insect), 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 | Stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 insects | compound |
| 2 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | nsubj |
| 3 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 twigs | case |
| 5 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 look | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sway | cc |
| 7 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | conj |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 branches | case |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sway | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wind | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wind | det |
| 12 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 branches | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 insect | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 insect | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 insect | det |
| 16 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 insect | amod |
| 17 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 insect | nsubj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 world | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 world | det |
| 20 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 insect | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 insect | cop |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 insect | det |
| 23 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 insect | amod |
| 24 | stick | stick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 insect | compound |
| 25 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 look | conj |
| 26 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 centimetres | case |
| 27 | sixty | sixty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 centimetres | nummod |
| 28 | centimetres | centimetre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 long | obl |
| 29 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 insect | amod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 look | 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 | look | present | Stick insects | like twigs | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the longest insect in the world | a Chinese stick insect | tree rules |
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:5.
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 ×3, R7-rel-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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