Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 17
In the dry season alligators dig gator holes that keep water when everything else dries out, and many other animals drink and live there.
Who acts: alligators, gator holes, everything, many other animals · What happens: dig, keep, dry out, drink, live · To what, where: gator holes, water
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, gator holes, everything, many other animals), 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 season | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 season | det |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 season | amod |
| 4 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dig | obl |
| 5 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dig | nsubj |
| 6 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | gator | gator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 holes | compound |
| 8 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 dig | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 keep | nsubj |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 holes | acl:relcl |
| 11 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 keep | obj |
| 12 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 15 dries | mark |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 15 dries | nsubj |
| 14 | else | else | ADV | _ | 13 everything | advmod |
| 15 | dries | dry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 keep | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 dries | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 drink | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 drink | cc |
| 19 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animals | amod |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 animals | amod |
| 21 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 drink | nsubj |
| 22 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 dig | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 live | cc |
| 24 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 drink | conj |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 live | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dig | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | alligators | gator holes | season | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme | |||
| 2 | keep | present | gator holes | water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | dry out | present | everything | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | drink | present | many other animals | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | live | present | many other animals not said here | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:17.
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. 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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