Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 3
Reptile lamps give UVB light, which helps the body make vitamin D to use calcium; without it bones grow soft and bent, and window glass blocks most UVB.
Who acts: Reptile lamps, UVB light, body, bones, window glass · What happens: give, help, make, use, grow, block · To what, where: UVB light, body, vitamin D, calcium, most UVB
This is a sentence of the lesson «Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands» 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 (Reptile lamps, UVB light, body, bones), 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 | Reptile | reptile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lamps | compound |
| 2 | lamps | lamp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | UVB | uvb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 light | compound |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 helps | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 helps | nsubj |
| 8 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 light | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 body | det |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 helps | obj |
| 11 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 helps | xcomp |
| 12 | vitamin | vitamin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 D | compound |
| 13 | D | D | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 make | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 use | mark |
| 15 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 make | advcl |
| 16 | calcium | calcium | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 use | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 grow | punct |
| 18 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 grow | obl |
| 20 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 grow | nsubj |
| 21 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | parataxis |
| 22 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grow | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 bent | cc |
| 24 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 soft | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 blocks | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 blocks | cc |
| 27 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 glass | compound |
| 28 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blocks | nsubj |
| 29 | blocks | block | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 grow | conj |
| 30 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 31 UVB | amod |
| 31 | UVB | uvb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 blocks | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Reptile lamps | UVB light | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme | ||||
| 2 | help | present | UVB light | the body | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent body=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | the body not said here | vitamin D | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset d=Product | ||||
| 4 | use | to-infinitive | the body not said here | calcium | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent calcium=Patient | ||||
| 5 | grow | present | bones | without calcium; soft property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | block | present | window glass | most UVB | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer uvb=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:329-tortoises-lizards-and-geckos-as-pets-heat-light-and-washing-hands.lesson:3.
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 ×3, 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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