Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 15

An osprey can turn one outer toe backwards, giving two toes forward and two back to grip slippery fish, and it carries the fish head forward like a torpedo.

Who acts: osprey, two · What happens: turn, give, grip, carry · To what, where: one outer toe, two toes, slippery fish, fish head

This is a sentence of the lesson «Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures» 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 (osprey, two), 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 osprey	det
2	osprey	osprey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	aux
4	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 toe	nummod
6	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 toe	amod
7	toe	toe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 turn	obj
8	backwards	backward	ADV	_	4 turn	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 giving	punct
10	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 turn	advcl
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 toes	nummod
12	toes	toe	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 giving	obj
13	forward	forward	ADV	_	10 giving	advmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 grip	cc
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 grip	nsubj
16	back	back	ADV	_	18 grip	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 grip	mark
18	grip	grip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 turn	conj
19	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 fish	amod
20	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grip	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 carries	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 carries	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 carries	nsubj
24	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 turn	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 head	det
26	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 head	compound
27	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carries	obj
28	forward	forward	ADV	_	24 carries	advmod
29	like	like	ADP	_	31 torpedo	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 torpedo	det
31	torpedo	torpedo	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 carries	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turn	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	can	a osprey	one outer toe	backward property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent toe=Theme
2	give	gerund	a osprey not said here	two toes	forward property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent toe=Theme
3	grip	to-infinitive	two	slippery fish		vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Experiencer
4	carry	present	osprey	the fish head	like a torpedo; forward property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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.

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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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