Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 16
Alligators bellow so deeply that the water on their backs dances, and babies call from inside their eggs when ready to hatch.
Who acts: Alligators, water, babies · What happens: bellow, dance, call, hatch · To what, where: eggs · 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 (Alligators, water, 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 | Alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bellow | nsubj |
| 2 | bellow | bellow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 deeply | advmod |
| 4 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 2 bellow | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 dances | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dances | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 backs | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 backs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 water | nmod |
| 11 | dances | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bellow | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 call | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 call | cc |
| 14 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 call | nsubj |
| 15 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 bellow | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 eggs | case |
| 17 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 19 eggs | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 call | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 ready | advmod |
| 21 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 call | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 hatch | mark |
| 23 | hatch | hatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ready | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 bellow | 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 | bellow | present | Alligators | deeply property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dance | present | the water on alligators's backs | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | call | present | babies | alligators's eggs | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from egg=Source | ||||
| 4 | hatch | to-infinitive | babies not said here | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient |
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:16.
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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