Team players and partners: meerkats, naked mole rats, huddles, cleaners (and do lemmings jump?), sentence 9
Naked mole rats pile up in heaps to keep warm, because they are very poor at keeping their own bodies warm; in experiments they survived about 18 minutes with no oxygen.
Who acts: Naked mole rats, rats · What happens: pile up, keep, be, survive · To what, where: heaps, own bodies, experiments
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 pile | nsubj |
| 4 | pile | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 pile | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 heaps | case |
| 7 | heaps | heap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 pile | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 keep | mark |
| 9 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pile | advcl |
| 10 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 keep | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 poor | punct |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 poor | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 poor | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 poor | cop |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 poor | advmod |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 pile | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 18 keeping | mark |
| 18 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 poor | advcl |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 bodies | amod |
| 21 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 keeping | obj |
| 22 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 keeping | xcomp |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 survived | punct |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 experiments | case |
| 25 | experiments | experiment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 survived | obl |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 survived | nsubj |
| 27 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pile | parataxis |
| 28 | about | about | ADV | _ | 29 18 | advmod |
| 29 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 30 minutes | nummod |
| 30 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 survived | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 oxygen | case |
| 32 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 oxygen | det |
| 33 | oxygen | oxygen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 survived | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pile | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pile up | present | Naked mole rats | heaps | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in heap=Destination | ||||
| 2 | keep | to-infinitive | Naked mole rats not said here | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present | rats = rat | poor property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | rats = rat not said here | rats's own bodies | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Theme | |||
| 5 | survive | past | rats = rat | experiments | minute | with no oxygen | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in experiment=Location |
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:9.
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, R7-rel-agree ×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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