Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 0

Some animals look as if a child drew them for a joke: a bird with a shoe for a beak, a mole with a pink star on its nose, an antelope with a little trunk, a walking pine cone and a fish that turns into slime.

Who acts: animals, child, fish · What happens: look, draw, turn · To what, where: animals, slime

This is a sentence of the lesson «Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish» 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 (animals, child, fish), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 drew	mark
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	8 drew	mark
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 child	det
7	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drew	nsubj
8	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 look	advcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drew	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 joke	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 joke	det
12	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drew	obl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 bird	punct
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 bird	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joke	conj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 shoe	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 shoe	det
18	shoe	shoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bird	nmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 beak	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 beak	det
21	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 shoe	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 mole	punct
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 mole	det
24	mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bird	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 star	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 star	det
27	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 star	amod
28	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 mole	nmod
29	on	on	ADP	_	31 nose	case
30	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 nose	nmod:poss
31	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 star	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 antelope	punct
33	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 antelope	det
34	antelope	antelope	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joke	conj
35	with	with	ADP	_	38 trunk	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 trunk	det
37	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 trunk	amod
38	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 antelope	nmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 cone	punct
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 cone	det
41	walking	walking	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 cone	compound
42	pine	pine	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 cone	compound
43	cone	cone	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 joke	conj
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 fish	cc
45	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 fish	det
46	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 cone	conj
47	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	48 turns	nsubj
48	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 fish	acl:relcl
49	into	into	ADP	_	50 slime	case
50	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 turns	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	look	present	some animals				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	draw	past	a child	animals = animal		for a joke and a bird with a shoe for a beak and a mole with a pink star on child's nose and a antelope with a little trunk and a walking pine cone and a fish	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Result for joke=Beneficiary
3	turn	present	a fish		slime		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into slime=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:366-odd-looking-animals-shoebills-star-nosed-moles-saigas-pangolins-and-hagfish.lesson:0.

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. 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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