The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived, sentence 3

Small animals that could burrow, hide in water, or eat seeds and dead things, such as frogs, turtles, crocodiles, small mammals and some birds, came through it.

Who acts: Small animals · What happens: burrow, hide, eat, come · To what, where: water, seeds

This is a sentence of the lesson «The asteroid: the day the dinosaurs died and who survived» 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 (Small animals), 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	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 animals	amod
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 came	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 burrow	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 burrow	aux
5	burrow	burrow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 animals	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hide	punct
7	hide	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 burrow	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 water	case
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hide	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 eat	punct
11	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 eat	cc
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 burrow	conj
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eat	obj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 things	cc
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 things	amod
16	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seeds	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 frogs	punct
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	20 frogs	case
19	as	as	ADP	_	18 such	fixed
20	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seeds	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 turtles	punct
22	turtles	turtle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 frogs	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 crocodiles	punct
24	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seeds	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 mammals	punct
26	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 mammals	amod
27	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seeds	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 birds	cc
29	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	30 birds	det
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 seeds	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 animals	punct
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
33	through	through	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	burrow	could	Small animals				vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	hide	infinitive	Small animals not said here		water		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
3	eat	infinitive	Small animals not said here	seeds and dead things and crocodiles and small mammals and some birds		such frogs and turtles	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
4	come	past	Small animals		water		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through it=Initial_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:271-the-asteroid-the-day-the-dinosaurs-died.lesson:3.

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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