Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 19
Hermit crabs need damp air and company because they live in groups, and with good care some are reported to live over 20 years.
Who acts: Hermit crabs, crabs · What happens: need, live, report · To what, where: damp air, groups, some
This is a sentence of the lesson «Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs» 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 (Hermit crabs, crabs), 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 | Hermit | hermit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crabs | compound |
| 2 | crabs | crab | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 air | amod |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 company | cc |
| 7 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 air | conj |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 10 live | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 live | nsubj |
| 10 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 need | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 groups | case |
| 12 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 live | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reported | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 reported | cc |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 care | case |
| 16 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 care | amod |
| 17 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reported | obl |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 reported | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 reported | aux:pass |
| 20 | reported | report | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 need | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 live | mark |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 reported | xcomp |
| 23 | over | over | ADV | _ | 24 20 | advmod |
| 24 | 20 | 20 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 25 years | nummod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 live | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Hermit crabs | damp air and company | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | present | crabs = crab | groups | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in group=Location | ||||
| 3 | report | present · passive | some | with good care | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:19.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, 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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