Falcons, hawks, kites, ospreys and vultures, sentence 17
A vulture's bald head stays cleaner when pushed inside a carcass, and its very strong stomach acid kills most germs in rotten meat.
Who acts: bald head, strong stomach acid · What happens: stay, push, kill · To what, where: carcass, most germs, rotten meat
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 (bald head, strong stomach acid), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 vulture | det |
| 2 | vulture | vulture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 vulture | case |
| 4 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 head | amod |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stays | nsubj |
| 6 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | cleaner | clean | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 stays | xcomp |
| 8 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 pushed | mark |
| 9 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stays | advcl |
| 10 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 12 carcass | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 carcass | det |
| 12 | carcass | carcass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pushed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 kills | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 kills | cc |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 acid | nmod:poss |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 strong | advmod |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 acid | amod |
| 18 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 acid | compound |
| 19 | acid | acid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 kills | nsubj |
| 20 | kills | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 stays | conj |
| 21 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 germs | amod |
| 22 | germs | germ | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 kills | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 meat | case |
| 24 | rotten | rotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 meat | amod |
| 25 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 germs | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 stays | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | present | a vulture's bald head | clean property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | push | participle | a vulture's bald head not said here | a carcass | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent inside carcass=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | kill | present | head's strong stomach acid | most germs | rotten meat | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=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:324-falcons-hawks-kites-ospreys-and-vultures.lesson:17.
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, 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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