Tortoises, lizards and geckos as pets: heat, light and washing hands, sentence 5
Reptiles are full of such tricks, from dropping tails to sticky toes that walk up glass.
Who acts: Reptiles, sticky toes · What happens: be, drop, walk · To what, where: tails, sticky toes, glass
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 (Reptiles, sticky toes), 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 | Reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 full | cop |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 tricks | case |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tricks | amod |
| 6 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dropping | punct |
| 8 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 9 dropping | mark |
| 9 | dropping | drop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 tricks | nmod |
| 10 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dropping | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 toes | case |
| 12 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 toes | amod |
| 13 | toes | toe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 tails | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 walk | nsubj |
| 15 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 toes | acl:relcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 glass | case |
| 17 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walk | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 full | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Reptiles | of such tricks; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drop | gerund | tails | sticky toes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tail=Theme to toe=Destination | ||||
| 3 | walk | present | sticky toes | glass | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up glass=Trajectory |
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:5.
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): R7-rel-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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