The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 3
A camel's wide feet fit the sand, an octopus's spare hearts fit life in the sea, and a dormouse's long winter sleep fits a cold season with no food.
Who acts: wide feet, spare hearts, long winter sleep, dormouse · What happens: fit, sleep · To what, where: sand, life, sea
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 (wide feet, spare hearts, long winter sleep, dormouse), 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 camel | det |
| 2 | camel | camel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 camel | case |
| 4 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feet | amod |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fit | nsubj |
| 6 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sand | det |
| 8 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fit | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fit | punct |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 octopus | det |
| 11 | octopus | octopus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 octopus | case |
| 13 | spare | spare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 hearts | amod |
| 14 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fit | nsubj |
| 15 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fit | conj |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fit | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sea | det |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fit | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 fits | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 fits | cc |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dormouse | det |
| 23 | dormouse | dormouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 24 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 23 dormouse | case |
| 25 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sleep | amod |
| 26 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 sleep | compound |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fits | nsubj |
| 28 | fits | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fit | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 season | det |
| 30 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 season | amod |
| 31 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fits | obj |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 food | case |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 food | det |
| 34 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 season | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fit | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | a camel's wide feet | the sand | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fit | present | a octopus's spare hearts | life | the sea | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent life=Theme in sea=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | fit | present | a dormouse's long winter sleep | season | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | sleep | a dormouse | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×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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