Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 5

Shoebills greet each other by clattering their huge beaks, and scientists now think their closest relatives are pelicans and hammerkops, not true storks.

Who acts: Shoebills, scientists, closest relatives · What happens: greet, clatter, think, be · To what, where: each, huge beaks, pelicans · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Shoebills, scientists, closest relatives), 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	Shoebills	shoebill	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 greet	nsubj
2	greet	greet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 greet	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	by	by	SCONJ	_	6 clattering	mark
6	clattering	clatter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 greet	advcl
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 beaks	nmod:poss
8	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 beaks	amod
9	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 clattering	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 think	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 think	cc
12	scientists	scientist	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 think	nsubj
13	now	now	ADV	_	14 think	advmod
14	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 greet	conj
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 relatives	nmod:poss
16	closest	close	ADJ	Degree=Sup	17 relatives	amod
17	relatives	relative	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pelicans	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 pelicans	cop
19	pelicans	pelican	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 think	ccomp
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 hammerkops	cc
21	hammerkops	hammerkop	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pelicans	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 storks	punct
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 storks	advmod
24	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 storks	amod
25	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 pelicans	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 greet	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	greet speech: greet	present	Shoebills	each		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Theme
2	clatter	gerund	Shoebills not said here	lungfish's huge beaks		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beak=Theme
3	think speech: other	present	scientists		now	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	scientists's closest relatives	pelicans and hammerkops and true storks		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:5.

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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