Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers, sentence 4
Each building solves a problem: keeping cool, keeping eggs away from snakes, or winning a mate.
Who acts: building · What happens: solve, keep, win · To what, where: problem, eggs, mate
This is a sentence of the lesson «Animal builders: termite mounds, weaver birds and other nest makers» 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 (building), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 building | det |
| 2 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 solves | nsubj |
| 3 | solves | solve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 problem | det |
| 5 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 solves | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 solves | punct |
| 7 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 problem | appos |
| 8 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 keeping | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 keeping | punct |
| 10 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 keeping | conj |
| 11 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 keeping | obj |
| 12 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 keeping | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 snakes | case |
| 14 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 away | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 winning | punct |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 winning | cc |
| 17 | winning | win | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 keeping | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mate | det |
| 19 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 winning | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 solves | 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 | solve | present | each building | a problem | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent problem=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | cool property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | keep | gerund | eggs | away property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | ||||
| 4 | win | gerund | a mate | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Eventuality |
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:243-animal-builders-termite-mounds-weaver-birds-and-other-nest-makers.lesson:4.
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.
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