Unusual pets: stick insects, giant snails, ant farms and hermit crabs, sentence 6

The biggest crab moves in, the next takes its old shell, and so on down the queue, like families moving into bigger houses one after another.

Who acts: biggest crab, next, families · What happens: move in, take, move · To what, where: old shell, one, bigger houses

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 (biggest crab, next, families), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crab	det
2	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 crab	amod
3	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moves	nsubj
4	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 moves	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 takes	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 next	det
8	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 takes	nsubj
9	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 moves	parataxis
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 shell	nmod:poss
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 shell	amod
12	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 takes	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 queue	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 queue	cc
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 on	advmod
16	on	on	ADP	_	19 queue	case
17	down	down	ADP	_	19 queue	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 queue	det
19	queue	queue	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 takes	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 families	punct
21	like	like	ADP	_	22 families	case
22	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 moves	obl
23	moving	move	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 families	acl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 houses	case
25	bigger	big	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	26 houses	amod
26	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 moving	obl
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 moving	obl
28	after	after	ADP	_	29 another	case
29	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 one	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 moves	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	move in	present	the biggest crab			like families	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	take	present	the next	shell's old shell			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Theme
3	move	gerund	families not said here	one after another	bigger houses		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into house=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:330-unusual-pets-stick-insects-giant-snails-ant-farms-and-hermit-crabs.lesson:6.

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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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