Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 13
The saltwater crocodile is the largest living reptile, with big males over 6 metres long, and it can travel by sea between islands.
Who acts: saltwater crocodile, animal · What happens: be, travel · To what, where: largest living reptile
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 (saltwater crocodile, animal), 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 | 3 crocodile | det |
| 2 | saltwater | saltwater | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crocodile | compound |
| 3 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reptile | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reptile | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 reptile | det |
| 6 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 reptile | amod |
| 7 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 reptile | amod |
| 8 | reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 males | punct |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 males | case |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 males | amod |
| 12 | males | male | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reptile | nmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADV | _ | 14 6 | advmod |
| 14 | 6 | 6 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 metres | nummod |
| 15 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 long | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 males | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 travel | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 travel | cc |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 travel | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 travel | aux |
| 21 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 reptile | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 sea | case |
| 23 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 travel | obl |
| 24 | between | between | ADP | _ | 25 islands | case |
| 25 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 travel | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reptile | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the saltwater crocodile | the largest living reptile | with big males | tree rules | |||
| 2 | travel | can | animal | by sea; between islands | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by sea=Trajectory |
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:13.
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, 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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