Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 10
The temperature of the nest decides whether the babies will be male or female.
Who acts: temperature, babies · What happens: decide, be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (temperature, babies), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 temperature | det |
| 2 | temperature | temperature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decides | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 nest | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 nest | det |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 temperature | nmod |
| 6 | decides | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 male | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 babies | det |
| 9 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 male | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 male | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 male | cop |
| 12 | male | male | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 decides | ccomp |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 female | cc |
| 14 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 male | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 decides | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | present | the temperature of the nest | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | future | the babies | male property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | the babies not said here | tree rules |
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:10.
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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