Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 1
In a meerkat group one meerkat stands on a rock as a guard while the rest dig for beetles, and grown-ups even teach the pups how to eat a scorpion safely.
Who acts: one meerkat, rest, grown ups · What happens: stand, dig, grow, teach, eat · To what, where: meerkat group, pups, scorpion
This is a sentence of the lesson «Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?)» 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 (one meerkat, rest, grown ups), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 group | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 group | det |
| 3 | meerkat | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 group | compound |
| 4 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | obl |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 meerkat | nummod |
| 6 | meerkat | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | nsubj |
| 7 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 rock | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 rock | det |
| 10 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | obl |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 guard | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 guard | det |
| 13 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stands | obl |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 dig | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rest | det |
| 16 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dig | nsubj |
| 17 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stands | advcl |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 beetles | case |
| 19 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dig | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ups | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 teach | cc |
| 22 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 ups | amod |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 ups | punct |
| 24 | ups | up | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 teach | nsubj |
| 25 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 teach | advmod |
| 26 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 stands | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pups | det |
| 28 | pups | pup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 teach | obj |
| 29 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 eat | advmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 eat | mark |
| 31 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 teach | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 scorpion | det |
| 33 | scorpion | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 eat | obj |
| 34 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 31 eat | advmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | one meerkat | a meerkat group | on a rock; as a guard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | |||
| 2 | dig | present | the rest | for beetles | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for beetle=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | teach speech: other | infinitive | grown ups | the pups | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pup=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | eat | to-infinitive | grown ups not said here | a scorpion | safely property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scorpion=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:241-team-players-and-partners-meerkats-naked-mole-rats-huddles-cleaners-and-lemmings.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 ×1, R8-pos-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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