The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 16

In the rainforest the canopy, the leafy roof of the forest, holds the most animals, because it gets the most sun and fruit; many canopy animals never touch the ground.

Who acts: food, many canopy animals · What happens: hold, get, not touch · To what, where: most animals, rainforest, most sun, ground

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 (food, many canopy animals), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 rainforest	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rainforest	det
3	rainforest	rainforest	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holds	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 canopy	det
5	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rainforest	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 roof	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 roof	det
8	leafy	leafy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 roof	amod
9	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 canopy	appos
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 roof	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rainforest	punct
14	holds	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 animals	det
16	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 animals	amod
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 holds	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gets	punct
19	because	because	SCONJ	_	21 gets	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gets	nsubj
21	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 holds	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sun	det
23	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 sun	amod
24	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gets	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 fruit	cc
26	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sun	conj
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 touch	punct
28	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 animals	amod
29	canopy	canopy	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 animals	compound
30	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 touch	nsubj
31	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	32 touch	advmod
32	touch	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 holds	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 touch	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 holds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hold	present		the most animals	the rainforest and the canopy	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent animal=Theme in rainforest=Location
2	get	present	food	the most sun and fruit		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sun=Stimulus
3	not touch	present	many canopy animals	the ground		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-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:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:16.

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 ×3. 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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