Crocodiles and alligators, sentence 9
Crocodiles lay eggs in nests; the mother guards them and carries the hatchlings to water in her mouth.
Who acts: Crocodiles, mother · What happens: lay, guard, carry · To what, where: eggs, nests, Crocodiles, hatchlings, 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 (Crocodiles, mother), 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 | Crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 nests | case |
| 5 | nests | nest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lay | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mother | det |
| 8 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 guards | nsubj |
| 9 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lay | parataxis |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 guards | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 carries | cc |
| 12 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 guards | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hatchlings | det |
| 14 | hatchlings | hatchling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 carries | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 mouth | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carries | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lay | 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 | lay | present | Crocodiles | eggs | nests | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme in nest=Destination | |||
| 2 | guard | present | the mother | Crocodiles = crocodile | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | the mother not said here | the hatchlings | mother's mouth | to water | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hatchling=Theme to water=Destination |
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:9.
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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