Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 6

A saltwater crocodile has one of the strongest bites ever measured, but the muscles that open the jaws are weak, so experts can hold a small one's mouth shut with tape.

Who acts: saltwater crocodile, muscles, experts · What happens: have, measure, open, be, hold · To what, where: one, strongest bites, jaws, mouth

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 (saltwater crocodile, muscles, experts), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crocodile	det
2	saltwater	saltwater	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 crocodile	compound
3	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 has	nsubj
4	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 has	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 bites	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bites	det
8	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 bites	amod
9	bites	bite	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	11 measured	advmod
11	measured	measure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 bites	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 weak	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 weak	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 muscles	det
15	muscles	muscle	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 weak	nsubj
16	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 open	nsubj
17	open	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 muscles	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 jaws	det
19	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 open	obj
20	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 weak	cop
21	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 has	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hold	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	_	26 hold	mark
24	experts	expert	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hold	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hold	aux
26	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 weak	parataxis
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 one	det
28	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 one	amod
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mouth	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 one	case
31	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hold	obj
32	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hold	xcomp
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 tape	case
34	tape	tape	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shut	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	a saltwater crocodile	one of the strongest bites			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
2	measure	participle		the strongest bites not said here	ever		vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme
3	open	present	the muscles	the jaws			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=Theme
4	is	present	the muscles			weak property	tree rules
5	hold	can	experts	a small one's mouth		shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=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:6.

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): R7-rel-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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