Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 6
Adult meerkats teach pups to eat scorpions step by step: first dead ones, then ones with the sting removed, then live ones.
Who acts: Adult meerkats, pups · What happens: teach, eat, remove · To what, where: pups, scorpions, ones
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 (Adult meerkats, pups), 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 | Adult | adult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 meerkats | amod |
| 2 | meerkats | meerkat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 teach | nsubj |
| 3 | teach | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | pups | pup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 teach | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 teach | xcomp |
| 7 | scorpions | scorpion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eat | obj |
| 8 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 step | case |
| 10 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 ones | punct |
| 12 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 dead | advmod |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 ones | amod |
| 14 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 step | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ones | punct |
| 16 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 ones | advmod |
| 17 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ones | conj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 sting | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sting | det |
| 20 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ones | nmod |
| 21 | removed | remove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 ones | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 ones | punct |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 ones | advmod |
| 24 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 ones | amod |
| 25 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ones | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 teach | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | present | Adult meerkats | pups | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent pup=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | pups not said here | scorpions | by step | tree rules | |||
| 3 | remove | participle | ones with the sting not said here | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=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:6.
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. 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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