Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 14
In the death roll a crocodile spins in the water to tear chunks off its prey, because it can't chew.
Who acts: crocodile, prey · What happens: spin, tear, not chew · To what, where: death roll, chunks
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 (crocodile, prey), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 roll | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 roll | det |
| 3 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 roll | compound |
| 4 | roll | roll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spins | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 crocodile | det |
| 6 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spins | nsubj |
| 7 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spins | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 tear | mark |
| 12 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spins | advcl |
| 13 | chunks | chunk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tear | obj |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 prey | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 prey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 chunks | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spins | punct |
| 18 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 chew | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 chew | nsubj |
| 20 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 chew | aux |
| 21 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 chew | advmod |
| 22 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spins | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 spins | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | a crocodile | the death roll | in the water | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in roll=Source in water=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | tear | to-infinitive | a crocodile not said here | chunks | off water's prey | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent chunk=Patient off prey=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | not chew | can | prey | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:14.
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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