Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 14

Oxpeckers eat ticks and flies off buffaloes and rhinos and hiss when danger comes, but they also peck at wounds to drink blood, so they are partly helpers and partly pests.

Who acts: Oxpeckers, danger · What happens: eat, hiss, come, peck, drink, be · To what, where: ticks, blood, helpers

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 (Oxpeckers, danger), 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	Oxpeckers	oxpecker	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	ticks	tick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 flies	cc
5	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 ticks	conj
6	off	off	ADP	_	7 buffaloes	case
7	buffaloes	buffalo	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 flies	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 rhinos	cc
9	rhinos	rhino	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 buffaloes	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hiss	cc
11	hiss	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 comes	advmod
13	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 comes	nsubj
14	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 hiss	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 peck	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 peck	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 peck	nsubj
18	also	also	ADV	_	19 peck	advmod
19	peck	peck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 wounds	case
21	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 peck	obl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 drink	mark
23	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 peck	advcl
24	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 drink	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 helpers	punct
26	so	so	ADV	_	30 helpers	advmod
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 helpers	nsubj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 helpers	cop
29	partly	partly	ADV	_	30 helpers	advmod
30	helpers	helper	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	parataxis
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 pests	cc
32	partly	partly	ADV	_	33 pests	advmod
33	pests	pest	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 helpers	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Oxpeckers	ticks and flies off buffaloes and rhinos		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient
2	hiss	present	Oxpeckers not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	come	present	danger			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	peck	present	Oxpeckers = oxpecker		at wounds	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at wound=Patient
5	drink	to-infinitive	Oxpeckers = oxpecker not said here	blood		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blood=Patient
6	is a	present	Oxpeckers = oxpecker	helpers and pests	partly property	tree rules

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:14.

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 ×4, R7-rel-agree ×2, 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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