Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 18
Caimans, South American relatives of alligators, often let capybaras, the world's biggest rodents, rest beside them or on their backs.
Who acts: Caimans, capybaras · What happens: let, rest · To what, where: capybaras
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 (Caimans, capybaras), 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 | Caimans | caiman | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 let | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 relatives | punct |
| 3 | South | South | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 relatives | compound |
| 4 | American | American | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 relatives | amod |
| 5 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Caimans | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 alligators | case |
| 7 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 relatives | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 capybaras | punct |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | capybaras | capybara | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 rodents | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rodents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 14 world | case |
| 16 | biggest | big | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 rodents | amod |
| 17 | rodents | rodent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 capybaras | appos |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rest | punct |
| 19 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 20 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 rest | obl |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 backs | cc |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 backs | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 backs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 them | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | 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 | let | present | Caimans | capybaras | often property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rest | infinitive | capybaras not said here | beside alligators = alligator | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside they=Location |
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:18.
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): R8-pos-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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