Turtles and tortoises, sentence 16
The alligator snapping turtle lures fish with a pink worm-shaped flap on its tongue and then snaps its jaws shut.
Who acts: alligator · What happens: snap, lure, fish, shape · To what, where: jaws
This is a sentence of the lesson «Turtles and tortoises» 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 (alligator), 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 | 2 alligator | det |
| 2 | alligator | alligator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | nsubj |
| 3 | snapping | snap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 alligator | acl |
| 4 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lures | compound |
| 5 | lures | lure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lures | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 flap | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 flap | det |
| 9 | pink | pink | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 flap | amod |
| 10 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shaped | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 shaped | punct |
| 12 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 flap | amod |
| 13 | flap | flap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fish | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 tongue | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 flap | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 snaps | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 snaps | advmod |
| 19 | snaps | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fish | conj |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 jaws | nmod:poss |
| 21 | jaws | jaw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 snaps | obj |
| 22 | shut | shut | ADV | _ | 19 snaps | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fish | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap | gerund | the alligator not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | lure | present | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | fish | the alligator | with a pink shaped flap on alligator's tongue | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 5 | snap | present | the alligator not said here | alligator's jaws | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location jaw=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:031-turtles-and-tortoises.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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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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