Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 3
Other teams are made of two different kinds of animal: a little cleaner fish picks parasites off a big fish, and a bird rides a buffalo eating its ticks; both sides gain something.
Who acts: cleaner fish, bird, sides, fish · What happens: make, pick, ride, eat, gain, tick · To what, where: Other teams, parasites, buffalo, ticks, something
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 (cleaner fish, bird, sides, fish), 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 | Other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 teams | amod |
| 2 | teams | team | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 kinds | case |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 kinds | nummod |
| 7 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 kinds | amod |
| 8 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 animal | case |
| 10 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 kinds | nmod |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 parasites | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 fish | det |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cleaner | amod |
| 14 | cleaner | cleaner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fish | compound |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 picks | nsubj |
| 16 | picks | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 17 | parasites | parasite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 picks | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 fish | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 fish | det |
| 20 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fish | amod |
| 21 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 picks | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rides | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 rides | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bird | det |
| 25 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rides | nsubj |
| 26 | rides | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 picks | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 buffalo | det |
| 28 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 rides | obj |
| 29 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 rides | advcl |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 ticks | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ticks | tick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 eating | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 gain | punct |
| 33 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 sides | det |
| 34 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 gain | nsubj |
| 35 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 36 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 35 gain | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | 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 | make | present · passive | Other teams | of two different kinds of animal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | pick | present | a cleaner fish | parasites | off a big fish | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parasite=Patient | |||
| 3 | ride | present | a bird | a buffalo | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent buffalo=Theme | ||||
| 4 | eat | gerund | a bird not said here | fish's ticks | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tick=Patient | ||||
| 5 | gain | present | both sides | something | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme | ||||
| 6 | tick | fish | nom tick «event transitive»: poss=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:3.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×3. 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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