Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth, sentence 1

Its secret is a stomach with four parts, the biggest of them a huge vat full of microbes, living things far too tiny to see, that break the grass down.

Who acts: secret, microbes · What happens: be, live, see, break down · To what, where: stomach, things, grass

This is a sentence of the lesson «Cows: cud, milk, burps and the red cape myth» 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 (secret, microbes), 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	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 secret	nmod:poss
2	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stomach	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 stomach	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stomach	det
5	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 parts	case
7	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 parts	nummod
8	parts	part	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stomach	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 vat	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 biggest	det
11	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	16 vat	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 them	case
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 biggest	nmod
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 vat	det
15	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vat	amod
16	vat	vat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stomach	conj
17	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 vat	amod
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 microbes	case
19	microbes	microbe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 full	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 living	punct
21	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 full	advcl
22	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 living	obj
23	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	25 tiny	advmod
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 tiny	advmod
25	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 things	amod
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 tiny	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 break	punct
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 break	nsubj
30	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 microbes	acl:relcl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grass	det
32	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 break	obj
33	down	down	ADP	_	30 break	compound:prt
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stomach	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Grass's secret	a stomach and a biggest huge vat	with four parts	tree rules
2	live	gerund	Grass's secret not said here	things		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme thing=Location
3	see	to-infinitive	Grass's secret not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	break down	present	microbes	the grass		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

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:209-cows-cud-milk-burps-and-the-red-cape-myth.lesson:1.

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 ×2, 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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