Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes, sentence 7

An eagle's foot has four talons, three forward and one back, and the back talon is often the biggest and works like a thumb to pin prey.

Who acts: foot, one · What happens: have, be, work, pin · To what, where: four talons, prey

This is a sentence of the lesson «Eagles: golden eagles, harpy eagles, Steller's sea eagles and eagle eyes» 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 (foot, one), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 foot	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 eagle	case
4	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 has	nsubj
5	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 talons	nummod
7	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 has	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 three	punct
9	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 talons	conj
10	forward	forward	ADV	_	9 three	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 biggest	cc
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 biggest	nsubj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 one	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 biggest	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 biggest	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 talon	det
17	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 talon	compound
18	talon	talon	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 biggest	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 biggest	cop
20	often	often	ADV	_	22 biggest	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 biggest	det
22	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 has	conj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 works	cc
24	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 has	conj
25	like	like	ADP	_	27 thumb	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thumb	det
27	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 works	obl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 pin	mark
29	pin	pin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 thumb	acl
30	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 pin	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	a eagle's foot	four talons		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent talon=Patient
2	is	present	one		big, often property	tree rules
3	work	present	a eagle's foot not said here		like a thumb	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pin	to-infinitive	a eagle's foot not said here	prey		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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:323-eagles-golden-eagles-harpy-eagles-stellers-sea-eagles-and-eagle-eyes.lesson:7.

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): no change. 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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