Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 1

But every odd part is a tool: the star feels for worms in the dark, the big nose warms freezing air, the scales are armour and the slime chokes a shark's gills.

Who acts: odd part, star, big nose, scales, slime · What happens: be, feel, warm, freeze, choke · To what, where: tool, dark, freezing air, armour, gills

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 (odd part, star, big nose, scales), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 tool	cc
2	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 part	det
3	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 part	amod
4	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tool	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tool	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tool	det
7	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 feels	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 star	det
10	star	star	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feels	nsubj
11	feels	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tool	parataxis
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 worms	case
13	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 feels	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 dark	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dark	det
16	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 feels	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 warms	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 nose	det
19	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nose	amod
20	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 warms	nsubj
21	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 feels	conj
22	freezing	freeze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 air	amod
23	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 warms	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 armour	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 scales	det
26	scales	scale	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 armour	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 armour	cop
28	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 warms	conj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 chokes	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 slime	det
31	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 chokes	nsubj
32	chokes	choke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 armour	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 shark	det
34	shark	shark	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 gills	nmod:poss
35	's	's	PART	_	34 shark	case
36	gills	gill	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 chokes	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tool	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	is a	present	every odd part	a tool			tree rules
2	feel	present	the star		the dark	for worms	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for worm=Theme in dark=Location
3	warm	present	the big nose	freezing air			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=Patient
4	freeze	gerund					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	is a	present	the scales	armour			tree rules
6	choke	present	the slime	a shark's gills			vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gill=Destination

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:1.

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): R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.

See the release 0.4.

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