Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 3

Looks can also fool us: the shoebill looks like a stork and a pangolin looks like a reptile, but scientists check relatives by genes and bodies, not by looks.

Who acts: Looks, shoebill, pangolin, scientists · What happens: fool, look, check · To what, where: us, relatives

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 (Looks, shoebill, pangolin, scientists), 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	Looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 fool	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fool	aux
3	also	also	ADV	_	4 fool	advmod
4	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 fool	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 looks	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shoebill	det
8	shoebill	shoebill	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	nsubj
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fool	parataxis
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 stork	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 stork	det
12	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 looks	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 looks	cc
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 pangolin	det
15	pangolin	pangolin	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looks	nsubj
16	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 looks	conj
17	like	like	ADP	_	19 reptile	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 reptile	det
19	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 looks	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 check	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 check	cc
22	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 check	nsubj
23	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fool	parataxis
24	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 check	obj
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 genes	case
26	genes	gene	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 check	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bodies	cc
28	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 genes	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looks	punct
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 looks	advmod
31	by	by	ADP	_	32 looks	case
32	looks	look	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 check	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fool	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fool	can	Looks	us		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
2	look	present	the shoebill		like a stork	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	look	present	a pangolin		like a reptile	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	check	infinitive	scientists	relatives	by genes and bodies; by looks	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relative=Theme

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:3.

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): 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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