China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 10

A snub-nosed cousin in Myanmar is reported to sneeze when rain gets into its upturned nose, so it sits with its head down in rain.

Who acts: rain, cousin · What happens: nose, report, sneeze, get, sit · To what, where: nosed cousin, upturned nose, rain

This is a sentence of the lesson «China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders» 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 (rain, cousin), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cousin	det
2	snub	snub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nosed	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 snub	punct
4	nosed	nose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cousin	amod
5	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reported	nsubj:pass
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 Myanmar	case
7	Myanmar	Myanmar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cousin	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reported	aux:pass
9	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sneeze	mark
11	sneeze	sneeze	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 reported	xcomp
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 gets	advmod
13	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gets	nsubj
14	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sneeze	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 nose	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 nose	nmod:poss
17	upturned	upturned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nose	amod
18	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gets	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 sits	punct
20	so	so	ADV	_	22 sits	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 sits	nsubj
22	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 reported	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 head	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 head	nmod:poss
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sits	obl
26	down	down	ADV	_	22 sits	advmod
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 rain	case
28	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sits	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 reported	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	nose	participle					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	report	present · passive		a nosed cousin in Myanmar			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
3	sneeze	to-infinitive					vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	get	present	rain		rain's upturned nose		vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nose=Destination
5	sit	present	cousin		rain	with nose's head; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in rain=Location

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:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:10.

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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