Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 1

Their eyes, ears and nostrils sit on top of the head, so a crocodile can lie in a river with only those showing, breathing, watching and listening while the rest of it is hidden like a floating log.

Who acts: eyes, crocodile · What happens: sit, lie, breathe, watch, listen, hide · To what, where: top, those, river, rest

This is a sentence of the lesson «Crocodiles and alligators» 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 (eyes, crocodile), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 eyes	nmod:poss
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 sit	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ears	punct
4	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eyes	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nostrils	cc
6	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eyes	conj
7	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 top	case
9	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sit	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 head	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 head	det
12	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 top	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lie	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	18 lie	advmod
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 crocodile	det
16	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lie	nsubj
17	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 lie	aux
18	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sit	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 river	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 river	det
21	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lie	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	25 showing	case
23	only	only	ADV	_	24 those	advmod
24	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 lie	obl
25	showing	showing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lie	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 breathing	punct
27	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 showing	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 watching	punct
29	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 breathing	conj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 listening	cc
31	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 breathing	conj
32	while	while	SCONJ	_	38 hidden	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rest	det
34	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hidden	nsubj:pass
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 it	case
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 rest	nmod
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 hidden	aux:pass
38	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 listening	advcl
39	like	like	ADP	_	42 log	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 log	det
41	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	42 log	amod
42	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hidden	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sit	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	present	Crocodiles's eyes and ears and nostrils		top of the head		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location
2	lie	can	a crocodile	those	a river	with showing	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in river=Location
3	breathe	gerund	a crocodile not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	watch	gerund	a crocodile not said here				vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
5	listen	gerund	a crocodile not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
6	hide	present · passive		the rest of showing		like a floating log	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
7	float	gerund					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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:029-crocodiles-and-alligators.lesson:1.

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 ×3. 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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