Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds, sentence 12

Greyhounds can reach about seventy kilometres an hour thanks to long legs, a deep chest with big lungs and a bendy spine, yet at home they sleep most of the day.

Who acts: Greyhounds · What happens: reach, sleep · To what, where: seventy kilometres, most, home

This is a sentence of the lesson «Dogs: from wolves to hundreds of breeds» 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 (Greyhounds), 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	Greyhounds	greyhound	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reach	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 reach	aux
3	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	about	about	ADV	_	5 seventy	advmod
5	seventy	seventy	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 kilometres	nummod
6	kilometres	kilometre	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 reach	obj
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kilometres	nmod:unmarked
9	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reach	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 legs	case
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legs	amod
12	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 thanks	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 chest	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 chest	det
15	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 chest	amod
16	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 legs	conj
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 lungs	case
18	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lungs	amod
19	lungs	lung	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 chest	nmod
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 chest	cc
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 spine	det
22	bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spine	amod
23	spine	spine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 legs	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sleep	punct
25	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	29 sleep	cc
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 home	case
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sleep	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sleep	nsubj
29	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reach	conj
30	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	29 sleep	obj
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 day	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 day	det
33	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 most	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 reach	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	can	Greyhounds	seventy kilometres a hour				thanks to long legs and a deep chest with big lungs and a bendy spine obl	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent kilometre=Theme
2	sleep	present	greyhounds = greyhound	most of the day		home			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=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:192-dogs-from-wolves-to-hundreds-of-breeds.lesson:12.

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, 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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