Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, sentence 14

Some mosquitoes carry malaria, which kills about 600,000 people a year, mostly young children in Africa, so mosquitoes are the deadliest animals to people.

Who acts: mosquitoes, malaria · What happens: carry, kill, be · To what, where: malaria, 600,000 people, deadliest animals

This is a sentence of the lesson «Insects: butterflies, beetles, flies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers» 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 (mosquitoes, malaria), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 mosquitoes	det
2	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	nsubj
3	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	malaria	malaria	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carry	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kills	punct
6	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 kills	nsubj
7	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 malaria	acl:relcl
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 600,000	advmod
9	600,000	600,000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	10 people	nummod
10	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kills	obj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 year	det
12	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kills	obl:unmarked
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 children	punct
14	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	16 children	advmod
15	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 children	amod
16	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 kills	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 Africa	case
18	Africa	Africa	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 children	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 animals	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	25 animals	advmod
21	mosquitoes	mosquito	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 animals	nsubj
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 animals	cop
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 animals	det
24	deadliest	deadly	ADJ	Degree=Sup	25 animals	amod
25	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carry	parataxis
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 people	case
27	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 animals	nmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carry	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	some mosquitoes	malaria			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malaria=Theme
2	kill	present	malaria	600,000 people	year	young children in Africa obl	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Theme
3	is a	present	mosquitoes	the deadliest animals		to people	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:037-butterflies-beetles-flies-mosquitoes-grasshoppers.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): 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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