Defences: poison, warning colours and mimics, sentence 4
Many poisonous animals do not make their poison themselves: they get it from what they eat.
Who acts: Many poisonous animals, stripes · What happens: not make, get, eat · To what, where: poison, animal
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 (Many poisonous animals, stripes), 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 | Many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 2 | poisonous | poisonous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 make | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 make | advmod |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 poison | nmod:poss |
| 8 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 make | obj |
| 9 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 poison | appos |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | parataxis |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 what | case |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 get | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 eat | nsubj |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | present · do-support | Many poisonous animals | stripes's poison | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Product | ||||
| 2 | get | present | stripes = stripe | animal | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from what=Source | ||||
| 3 | eat | present | stripes = stripe | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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:247-defences-poison-warning-colours-and-mimics.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): R7-rel-agree ×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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