Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 5

Alligators have a wide U-shaped snout and hidden lower teeth, while crocodiles have a narrower V-shaped snout and a lower tooth that shows when the mouth is shut.

Who acts: Alligators, crocodiles, lower tooth, mouth · What happens: have, hide, show, be · To what, where: wide shaped snout, narrower shaped snout

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, crocodiles, lower tooth, mouth), 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 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 snout	det
4	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snout	amod
5	U	U	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 shaped	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 U	punct
7	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 snout	amod
8	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 teeth	cc
10	hidden	hide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 teeth	amod
11	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 teeth	amod
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 snout	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 have	punct
14	while	while	SCONJ	_	16 have	mark
15	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 have	nsubj
16	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 have	advcl
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 snout	det
18	narrower	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	22 snout	amod
19	V	v	X	_	18 narrower	goeswith
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 V	punct
21	shaped	shaped	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 snout	amod
22	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 have	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 tooth	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 tooth	det
25	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 tooth	amod
26	tooth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 snout	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 shows	nsubj
28	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 tooth	acl:relcl
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 shut	advmod
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mouth	det
31	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 shut	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 shut	cop
33	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 shows	advcl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Alligators	a wide shaped snout and hidden lower teeth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Patient
2	hide	participle				vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	present	crocodiles	a narrower shaped snout and a lower tooth		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Patient
4	show	present	a lower tooth			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	the mouth		shut property	tree rules

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:5.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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