The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor, sentence 16

The southern cassowary of northern Australia and New Guinea is a huge flightless bird with a casque on its head and a dagger-like inner claw about 10 cm long; it can be dangerous to people who get close.

Who acts: southern cassowary, dagger, people · What happens: be, get · To what, where: huge flightless bird

This is a sentence of the lesson «The rainforest from below: understorey and forest floor» 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 (southern cassowary, dagger, people), 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 cassowary	det
2	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cassowary	amod
3	cassowary	cassowary	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bird	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	9 Guinea	case
5	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Australia	amod
6	Australia	Australia	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cassowary	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 New	cc
8	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Australia	conj
9	Guinea	Guinea	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Australia	conj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 bird	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bird	det
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
13	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	amod
14	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 casque	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 casque	det
17	casque	casque	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bird	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 head	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 head	nmod:poss
20	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 casque	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 claw	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 claw	det
23	dagger	dagger	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 claw	nsubj
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 claw	punct
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 claw	case
26	inner	inner	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 claw	amod
27	claw	claw	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 casque	conj
28	about	about	ADV	_	29 10	advmod
29	10	10	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	30 cm	nummod
30	cm	cm	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 long	obl:unmarked
31	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 claw	amod
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 dangerous	punct
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 dangerous	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 dangerous	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 dangerous	cop
36	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bird	parataxis
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 people	case
38	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 dangerous	obl
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 get	nsubj
40	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 people	acl:relcl
41	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 get	xcomp
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the southern cassowary northern Australia and New and Guinea	a huge flightless bird	with a casque on cassowary's head and a inner claw	tree rules
2	is	can	dagger		to people; dangerous property	tree rules
3	get	present	people		close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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:003-the-rainforest-from-below.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): R5-strong ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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