The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats and animals, sentence 9
The Arctic tern has the longest migration, flying from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back each year, about 70000 kilometres, following the summer from one end of the Earth to the other, so it sees more daylight than any other animal.
Who acts: Arctic tern, tern · What happens: have, fly, follow, see · To what, where: longest migration, 70000 kilometres, Antarctic, Arctic, other, more daylight
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 (Arctic tern, tern), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tern | det |
| 2 | Arctic | arctic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tern | amod |
| 3 | tern | tern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 migration | det |
| 6 | longest | long | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 migration | amod |
| 7 | migration | migration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 flying | punct |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 has | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 Arctic | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Arctic | det |
| 12 | Arctic | Arctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 flying | obl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 Antarctic | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Antarctic | det |
| 15 | Antarctic | Antarctic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 flying | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 back | cc |
| 17 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 Antarctic | conj |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 year | det |
| 19 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flying | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kilometres | punct |
| 21 | about | about | ADV | _ | 22 70000 | advmod |
| 22 | 70000 | 70000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 kilometres | nummod |
| 23 | kilometres | kilometre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flying | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 following | punct |
| 25 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 flying | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 summer | det |
| 27 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 following | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 end | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 end | nummod |
| 30 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 summer | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Earth | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Earth | det |
| 33 | Earth | Earth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 end | nmod |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 other | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 other | det |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 following | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 sees | punct |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 sees | advmod |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 sees | nsubj |
| 40 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 41 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 daylight | amod |
| 42 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 sees | obj |
| 43 | than | than | ADP | _ | 46 animal | case |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 animal | det |
| 45 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 animal | amod |
| 46 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 daylight | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the Arctic tern | the longest migration | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent migration=Patient | ||||
| 2 | fly | gerund | the Arctic tern not said here | 70000 kilometres | the Antarctic | the Arctic | year | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from arctic=Initial_Location to antarctic=Destination | |
| 3 | follow | gerund | the Arctic tern not said here | the other | summer | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent to other=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | see | present | tern | more daylight | than any other animal | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daylight=Stimulus |
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.
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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): R5-strong ×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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