The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 12

Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat meat and omnivores eat both: a cow is a herbivore, a cat a carnivore, and bears and people are omnivores, and teeth show what an animal eats: meat-eaters have sharp cutting teeth, plant-eaters flat grinding ones.

Who acts: Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, cow, bears, teeth · What happens: eat, be, show, have, cut, grind · To what, where: plants, meat, both, herbivore, omnivores, sharp cutting teeth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals» 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 (Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, cow), 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	Herbivores	herbivore	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 eat	punct
5	carnivores	carnivore	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
7	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 eat	cc
9	omnivores	omnivore	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	nsubj
10	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
11	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 eat	obj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 eat	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 cow	det
14	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 herbivore	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 herbivore	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 herbivore	det
17	herbivore	herbivore	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 cat	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cat	det
20	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 herbivore	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 carnivore	det
22	carnivore	carnivore	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 eat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 omnivores	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 omnivores	cc
25	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 omnivores	nsubj
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 people	cc
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bears	conj
28	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 omnivores	cop
29	omnivores	omnivore	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 eat	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 show	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 show	cc
32	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 show	nsubj
33	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 eat	conj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 eats	obj
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 animal	det
36	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 eats	nsubj
37	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 show	ccomp
38	:	:	PUNCT	_	41 eaters	punct
39	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 eaters	compound
40	-	-	PUNCT	_	39 meat	punct
41	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 have	nsubj
42	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 eats	parataxis
43	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 teeth	amod
44	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 teeth	amod
45	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 have	obj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 eaters	punct
47	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 eaters	compound
48	-	-	PUNCT	_	47 plant	punct
49	eaters	eater	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 eaters	conj
50	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 ones	amod
51	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	52 ones	amod
52	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 have	obj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 eat	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	eat	present	Herbivores	plants	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient
2	eat	present	carnivores	meat	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
3	eat	present	omnivores	both	tree rules
4	is a	present	a cow	a herbivore and a cat	tree rules
5	is a	present	bears and people	omnivores	tree rules
6	show	present	teeth		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	eat	present	a animal		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
8	have	present	meat eaters and plant eaters	sharp cutting teeth	tree rules
9	cut	gerund			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
10	grind	gerund			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-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:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:12.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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