Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links, sentence 16
Goosebumps are left from ancestors with fur: tiny muscles fluffed the fur up to keep warm or look bigger.
Who acts: fur tiny muscles · What happens: leave, fluff up, keep, look · To what, where: Goosebumps, ancestors, fur
This is a sentence of the lesson «Evolution myths put right: monkeys, the strongest and missing links» 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 (fur tiny muscles), 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 | Goosebumps | goosebump | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | aux:pass |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 ancestors | case |
| 5 | ancestors | ancestor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 muscles | case |
| 7 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 muscles | compound |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 muscles | punct |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 muscles | amod |
| 10 | muscles | muscle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ancestors | nmod |
| 11 | fluffed | fluff | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 muscles | acl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fur | det |
| 13 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fluffed | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 fluffed | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fluffed | advcl |
| 17 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 look | cc |
| 19 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 keep | conj |
| 20 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 look | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present · passive | Goosebumps | ancestors with fur tiny muscles | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location PP.destination»: subject=Source from ancestor=Destination | ||||
| 2 | fluff up | participle | fur tiny muscles not said here | the fur | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent fur=Patient | ||||
| 3 | keep | to-infinitive | fur tiny muscles not said here | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | look | infinitive | fur tiny muscles not said here | big property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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:280-evolution-myths-put-right-monkeys-the-strongest-and-missing-links.lesson:16.
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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