The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy, sentence 7

The harpy eagle perches on emergent trees and swoops into the canopy for sloths and monkeys; it can weigh up to about 9 kg, with talons around 13 cm long, about as long as a grizzly bear's claws.

Who acts: harpy eagle, eagle · What happens: perch, swoop, weigh up · To what, where: emergent trees, canopy

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from the top: emergent layer and canopy» 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 (harpy eagle, eagle), 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	3 eagle	det
2	harpy	harpy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eagle	compound
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 perches	nsubj
4	perches	perch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	emergent	emergent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 trees	amod
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 perches	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 swoops	cc
9	swoops	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 perches	conj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 canopy	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 canopy	det
12	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swoops	obl
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 sloths	case
14	sloths	sloth	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 canopy	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 monkeys	cc
16	monkeys	monkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sloths	conj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 weigh	punct
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 weigh	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 weigh	aux
20	weigh	weigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 perches	parataxis
21	up	up	ADP	_	20 weigh	compound:prt
22	to	to	ADP	_	25 kg	case
23	about	about	ADV	_	24 9	advmod
24	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	25 kg	nummod
25	kg	kg	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 weigh	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 talons	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 talons	case
28	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 weigh	obl
29	around	around	ADP	_	31 cm	case
30	13	13	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 cm	nummod
31	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 long	obl
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 talons	amod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 long	punct
34	about	about	ADV	_	36 long	advmod
35	as	as	ADV	_	36 long	advmod
36	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 weigh	advmod
37	as	as	ADP	_	42 claws	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 bear	det
39	grizzly	grizzly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bear	amod
40	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 claws	nmod:poss
41	's	's	PART	_	40 bear	case
42	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 long	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 perches	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	perch	present	the harpy eagle	emergent trees		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
2	swoop	present	the harpy eagle not said here	the canopy for sloths and monkeys		tree rules
3	weigh up	can	eagle		to 9 kg; with talons; long property	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: 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:002-the-rainforest-from-the-top.lesson:7.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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