Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics, sentence 13
Toads walk more than they hop and have drier, bumpier skin than frogs.
Who acts: Toads · What happens: walk, hop, have · To what, where: drier bumpier skin
This is a sentence of the lesson «Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics» 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 (Toads), 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 | Toads | toad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 walk | nsubj |
| 2 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 walk | advmod |
| 4 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 6 hop | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hop | nsubj |
| 6 | hop | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 more | advcl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 walk | conj |
| 9 | drier | dry | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 skin | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 skin | punct |
| 11 | bumpier | bumpy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 skin | amod |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 frogs | case |
| 14 | frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 skin | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 walk | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | present | Toads | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hop | present | toads = toad | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | present | Toads not said here | drier bumpier skin | than frogs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient |
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:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.lesson:13.
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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