Snakes and lizards, sentence 13

Many lizards drop their tail when grabbed, and it keeps wriggling to distract the predator; the new tail has cartilage instead of bone.

Who acts: Many lizards, tail, new tail · What happens: drop, grab, keep, wriggle, distract, have · To what, where: tail, predator, cartilage

This is a sentence of the lesson «Snakes and lizards» 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 (Many lizards, tail, new tail), 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	Many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lizards	amod
2	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 drop	nsubj
3	drop	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drop	obj
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 grabbed	mark
7	grabbed	grab	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 drop	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keeps	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 keeps	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keeps	nsubj
11	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	conj
12	wriggling	wriggle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 keeps	xcomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 distract	mark
14	distract	distract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wriggling	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 predator	det
16	predator	predator	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 distract	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 has	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 tail	det
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 tail	amod
20	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	nsubj
21	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 drop	parataxis
22	cartilage	cartilage	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obj
23	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	25 bone	case
24	of	of	ADP	_	23 instead	fixed
25	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 has	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drop	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drop	present	Many lizards	lizards's tail		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	grab	participle	Many lizards not said here			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	keep	present	tail			tree rules
4	wriggle	gerund	tail not said here			vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	distract	to-infinitive	tail not said here	the predator		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus predator=Experiencer
6	have	present	the new tail	cartilage	instead bone	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cartilage=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:030-snakes-and-lizards.lesson:13.

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 ×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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