China's mountains: golden snub-nosed monkeys, takins, red-crowned cranes and giant salamanders, sentence 11

The takin is a big goat relative of the mountains of China and the Himalayas; its oily coat sheds rain and snow, and its big nose warms cold air.

Who acts: takin, oily coat, big nose · What happens: be, shed, warm · To what, where: big goat relative, rain, cold air

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 (takin, oily coat, big nose), 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	2 takin	det
2	takin	takin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relative	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 relative	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 relative	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 relative	amod
6	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 relative	compound
7	relative	relative	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 mountains	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mountains	det
10	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 relative	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 China	case
12	China	China	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mountains	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 Himalayas	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Himalayas	det
15	Himalayas	himalaya	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 China	conj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 rain	punct
17	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 coat	nmod:poss
18	oily	oily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 coat	amod
19	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sheds	nsubj
20	sheds	shed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 relative	parataxis
21	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 sheds	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 snow	cc
23	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 rain	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 warms	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 warms	cc
26	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 nose	nmod:poss
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 nose	amod
28	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 warms	nsubj
29	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sheds	conj
30	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 air	amod
31	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 warms	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 relative	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the takin	a big goat relative	of the mountains of China and the Himalayas	tree rules
2	shed	present	rain's oily coat	rain and snow		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rain=Source
3	warm	present	rain's big nose	cold air		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent air=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:378-china-s-mountains-golden-snub-nosed-monkeys-takins-red-crowned-cranes-and-giant-salamanders.lesson:11.

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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