Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 7
A crocodile's eyes, ears and nostrils are on top of its head, and a clear third eyelid protects its eyes under water like goggles.
Who acts: eyes, clear third eyelid · What happens: be, protect · To what, where: top, eyes, 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 (eyes, clear third eyelid), 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 | 2 crocodile | det |
| 2 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 crocodile | case |
| 4 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 top | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ears | punct |
| 6 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eyes | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nostrils | cc |
| 8 | nostrils | nostril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 eyes | conj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 top | cop |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 top | case |
| 11 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 head | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 head | nmod:poss |
| 14 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 top | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 protects | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 protects | cc |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 eyelid | det |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyelid | amod |
| 19 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 eyelid | amod |
| 20 | eyelid | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 protects | nsubj |
| 21 | protects | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 top | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 protects | obj |
| 24 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 water | case |
| 25 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 protects | obl |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 goggles | case |
| 27 | goggles | goggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 water | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 top | 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 | is | present | a crocodile's eyes and ears and nostrils | top | of top's head | tree rules | |||
| 2 | protect | present | a clear third eyelid | eyelid's eyes | water like goggles | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Beneficiary |
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:7.
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): no change. 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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