Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 2

Think of a toolbox: a strange-looking tool is strange because it does one job very well, and these animals are the same.

Who acts: you, looking tool, tool, animals · What happens: think, look, be, do · To what, where: one job

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 (you, looking tool, tool, animals), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 toolbox	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 toolbox	det
4	toolbox	toolbox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Think	obl
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 strange	punct
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tool	det
7	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 looking	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 strange	punct
9	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 tool	amod
10	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 strange	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 strange	cop
12	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Think	parataxis
13	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 does	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 does	nsubj
15	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 strange	advcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 job	nummod
17	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 does	obj
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 well	advmod
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 does	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 same	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 same	cc
22	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	23 animals	det
23	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 same	nsubj
24	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 same	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 same	det
26	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 strange	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here		of a toolbox	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	is	present	a looking tool		strange property	tree rules
4	do	present	tool	one job	well property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
5	is	present	this animals		same property	tree rules

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:2.

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): no change. 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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