Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 2

To tell them apart, look at the snout and the teeth: an alligator has a wide U-shaped snout and its lower teeth hide when it shuts its mouth, while a crocodile has a narrower V-shaped snout and a big lower tooth still sticks out.

Who acts: you, alligator, lower teeth, log, crocodile, big lower tooth · What happens: tell, look, have, hide, shut, stick out · To what, where: Crocodiles, wide U shaped snout, mouth, narrower shaped snout · 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 (you, alligator, lower teeth, log), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 tell	mark
2	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 look	advcl
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	iobj
4	apart	apart	ADV	_	2 tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
6	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 snout	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snout	det
9	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 look	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 teeth	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 teeth	det
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 snout	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 alligator	det
15	alligator	alligator	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 look	parataxis
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 snout	det
18	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 snout	amod
19	U	U	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 snout	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 U	punct
21	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 snout	amod
22	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hide	cc
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 teeth	nmod:poss
25	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 teeth	amod
26	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hide	nsubj
27	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 has	conj
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	30 shuts	mark
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 shuts	nsubj
30	shuts	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hide	advcl
31	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 mouth	nmod:poss
32	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 shuts	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 has	punct
34	while	while	SCONJ	_	37 has	mark
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 crocodile	det
36	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 has	nsubj
37	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 hide	advcl
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 snout	det
39	narrower	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	43 snout	amod
40	V	v	X	_	39 narrower	goeswith
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 V	punct
42	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 snout	amod
43	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 has	obj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 sticks	cc
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 tooth	det
46	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 tooth	amod
47	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	48 tooth	amod
48	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 sticks	nsubj
49	still	still	ADV	_	50 sticks	advmod
50	sticks	stick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 has	conj
51	out	out	ADP	_	50 sticks	compound:prt
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

Pragmatics

form: command
act: request
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed form=imp, act=request

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	you not said here		Crocodiles = crocodile		apart property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	look	imperative	you not said here				at the snout and the teeth	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at snout=Theme
3	have	present	a alligator	a wide U shaped snout				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Patient
4	hide	present	log's lower teeth					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	shut	present	log	log's mouth				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient
6	have	present	a crocodile	a narrower shaped snout				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Patient
7	stick out	present	a big lower tooth			still		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: 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:2.

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, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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