Turtles and tortoises, sentence 8
Jonathan, a giant tortoise on the island of St Helena, hatched around 1832 and is the oldest known living land animal.
Who acts: Jonathan · What happens: hatch, know, live, be · To what, where: 1832, oldest known living land animal
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 (Jonathan), 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 | Jonathan | Jonathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hatched | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tortoise | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tortoise | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tortoise | amod |
| 5 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jonathan | appos |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 island | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 island | det |
| 8 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tortoise | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 St | case |
| 10 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 island | nmod |
| 11 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 St | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jonathan | punct |
| 13 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | around | around | ADP | _ | 15 1832 | case |
| 15 | 1832 | 1832 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 hatched | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 animal | cc |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 animal | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 animal | det |
| 19 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 animal | amod |
| 20 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 animal | amod |
| 21 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 animal | amod |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 animal | compound |
| 23 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hatched | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hatched | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | past | Jonathan | 1832 | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | Jonathan not said here | the oldest known living land animal | tree rules |
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:8.
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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