Odd-looking animals: shoebills, star-nosed moles, saigas, pangolins and hagfish, sentence 7
The star-nosed mole's star has 22 fleshy rays, 11 on each side, with about 25,000 tiny touch sensors, and it can find and eat a tiny meal in about a quarter of a second.
Who acts: star · What happens: nose, have, find, eat · To what, where: 22 fleshy rays, tiny meal, quarter
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 (star), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mole | det |
| 2 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nosed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 star | punct |
| 4 | nosed | nose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 mole | amod |
| 5 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 star | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 mole | case |
| 7 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 has | nsubj |
| 8 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 rays | nummod |
| 10 | fleshy | fleshy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 rays | amod |
| 11 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 has | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 11 | punct |
| 13 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 rays | appos |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 side | det |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 11 | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sensors | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 sensors | case |
| 19 | about | about | ADV | _ | 20 25,000 | advmod |
| 20 | 25,000 | 25000 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 sensors | nummod |
| 21 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sensors | amod |
| 22 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sensors | compound |
| 23 | sensors | sensor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rays | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 find | cc |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 find | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 has | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 eat | cc |
| 30 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 find | conj |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 meal | det |
| 32 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 meal | amod |
| 33 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eat | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 quarter | case |
| 35 | about | about | ADV | _ | 37 quarter | advmod |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 quarter | det |
| 37 | quarter | quarter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eat | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 second | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 second | det |
| 40 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 quarter | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nose | participle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | the nosed mole's star | 22 fleshy rays and 25,000 tiny touch sensors | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Patient | ||||
| 3 | find | can | star | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | eat | infinitive | star not said here | a tiny meal | a quarter of a second | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meal=Patient |
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:7.
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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