Masters of camouflage, sentence 6

The potoo sits still on a branch looking exactly like a dead stump, and even with its eyes shut it can see through notches in its eyelids.

Who acts: potoo, branch, eyes · What happens: sit, look, shut, see · To what, where: branch, notches

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 (potoo, branch, eyes), 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	2 potoo	det
2	potoo	potoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	nsubj
3	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	still	still	ADV	_	3 sits	advmod
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 branch	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 branch	det
7	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sits	obl
8	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 branch	acl
9	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 looking	advmod
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 stump	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stump	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stump	amod
13	stump	stump	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 looking	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shut	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 see	cc
16	even	even	ADV	_	20 shut	advmod
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 eyes	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 eyes	nmod:poss
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shut	nsubj
20	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 see	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sits	conj
24	through	through	ADP	_	25 notches	case
25	notches	notch	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 see	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 eyelids	case
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 eyelids	nmod:poss
28	eyelids	eyelid	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 notches	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sits	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the potoo	a branch	still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location
2	look	gerund	a branch not said here			like a dead stump; exactly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	shut	present	potoo's eyes				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	see	can	potoo	notches in potoo's eyelids			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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:6.

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. 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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