Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 15
American alligators live in swamps, rivers and lakes in the south-eastern USA and recovered from being endangered once hunting was controlled.
Who acts: American alligators · What happens: live, recover, endanger, control · To what, where: swamps, hunting
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 (American alligators), 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 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 alligators | amod |
| 2 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 swamps | case |
| 5 | swamps | swamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rivers | punct |
| 7 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swamps | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lakes | cc |
| 9 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 swamps | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 USA | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 USA | det |
| 12 | south | south | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eastern | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 south | punct |
| 14 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 USA | amod |
| 15 | USA | USA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 live | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 recovered | cc |
| 17 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | conj |
| 18 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 20 endangered | mark |
| 19 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 endangered | aux:pass |
| 20 | endangered | endanger | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 recovered | advcl |
| 21 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 24 controlled | mark |
| 22 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 controlled | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 controlled | aux:pass |
| 24 | controlled | control | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 endangered | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | American alligators | swamps and rivers and lakes | in the eastern USA | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in swamp=Location | |||
| 2 | recover | past | American alligators not said here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | endanger | gerund · passive | American alligators not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | control | past · passive | hunting | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=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:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, 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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