Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 11
Prairie dogs have alarm calls that seem to describe a predator, even a person's size and the colour of their clothes, as experiments by Con Slobodchikoff suggested.
Who acts: Prairie dogs, alarm calls, experiments, Con Slobodchikoff · What happens: have, seem, describe, suggest, experiment · To what, where: alarm calls, predator
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 (Prairie dogs, alarm calls, experiments, Con Slobodchikoff), 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 | Prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dogs | compound |
| 2 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 calls | compound |
| 5 | calls | call | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 seem | nsubj |
| 7 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 calls | acl:relcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 describe | mark |
| 9 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seem | xcomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 predator | det |
| 11 | predator | predator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 describe | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 size | punct |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 size | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 person | det |
| 15 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 size | nmod:poss |
| 16 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 15 person | case |
| 17 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 colour | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 colour | det |
| 20 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 size | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 clothes | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 colour | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 experiments | punct |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 experiments | case |
| 26 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 suggested | nsubj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 Slobodchikoff | case |
| 28 | Con | Con | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Slobodchikoff | compound |
| 29 | Slobodchikoff | Slobodchikoff | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 experiments | nmod |
| 30 | suggested | suggest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Prairie dogs | alarm calls | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Patient | ||||
| 2 | seem | present | alarm calls | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | describe | to-infinitive | alarm calls not said here | a predator | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent predator=Theme | ||||
| 4 | suggest speech: suggest | past | experiments by Con Slobodchikoff | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | experiment | Con Slobodchikoff | nom experiment «act intransitive»: by=agent |
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:11.
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. 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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