Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 8
Naked mole rats live underground in East Africa in colonies with one queen, like ants and bees; they can live over 30 years and hardly ever get cancer.
Who acts: Naked mole rats, rats · What happens: live, get · To what, where: East, cancer
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 (Naked mole rats, rats), 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 | Naked | naked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rats | amod |
| 2 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rats | compound |
| 3 | rats | rat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | nsubj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 4 live | advmod |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 East | case |
| 7 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 East | flat |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 colonies | case |
| 10 | colonies | colony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 live | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 queen | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 queen | nummod |
| 13 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 colonies | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ants | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 ants | case |
| 16 | ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 colonies | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 bees | cc |
| 18 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 ants | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 live | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 live | aux |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 live | parataxis |
| 23 | over | over | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 24 | 30 | 30 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 live | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 get | cc |
| 27 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 29 get | advmod |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 get | advmod |
| 29 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 live | conj |
| 30 | cancer | cancer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 get | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | 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 | live | present | Naked mole rats | East | in colonies with one queen like ants and bees; underground property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in east=Location | |||
| 2 | live | can | rats = rat | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | infinitive | rats = rat not said here | cancer | ever | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cancer=Stimulus |
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:8.
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): no change. 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.
See the release 0.4.
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