Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 14
Pangolins are among the most smuggled mammals, killed for scales that are only keratin and cure nothing.
Who acts: Pangolins, scales · What happens: smuggle, be, kill, cure · To what, where: smuggled mammals, keratin, nothing
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 (Pangolins, 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 | Pangolins | pangolin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mammals | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 mammals | cop |
| 3 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 mammals | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mammals | det |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 smuggled | advmod |
| 6 | smuggled | smuggle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mammals | amod |
| 7 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 killed | punct |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 mammals | acl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 scales | case |
| 11 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 killed | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 keratin | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 keratin | cop |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 15 keratin | advmod |
| 15 | keratin | keratin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 scales | acl:relcl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cure | cc |
| 17 | cure | cure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 keratin | conj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 17 cure | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mammals | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smuggle | participle | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Pangolins | among the smuggled mammals | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | kill | participle | the smuggled mammals not said here | for scales | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | scales | keratin | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | cure | present | scales not said here | nothing | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer nothing=Source |
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:14.
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): 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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