Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory, sentence 7
An elephant mother is pregnant for about 22 months, the longest of any land animal, and the calf weighs about 100 kilograms at birth.
Who acts: elephant mother, calf · What happens: be, weigh · To what, where: 100 kilograms, birth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Elephants: families, tusks, ears and memory» 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 (elephant mother, calf), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | compound |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 pregnant | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pregnant | cop |
| 5 | pregnant | pregnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 months | case |
| 7 | about | about | ADV | _ | 8 22 | advmod |
| 8 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 months | nummod |
| 9 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 pregnant | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 longest | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 longest | det |
| 12 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 months | appos |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 animal | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 animal | det |
| 15 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 animal | compound |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 longest | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 weighs | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 weighs | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 calf | det |
| 20 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 weighs | nsubj |
| 21 | weighs | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 pregnant | conj |
| 22 | about | about | ADV | _ | 23 100 | advmod |
| 23 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 24 kilograms | nummod |
| 24 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 weighs | obj |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 birth | case |
| 26 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 weighs | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pregnant | 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 | is | present | a elephant mother | month | pregnant property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | weigh | present | the calf | 100 kilograms | birth | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent kilogram=Theme at birth=Value |
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:022-elephants-families-tusks-ears-memory.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): R5-strong ×1, 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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