Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises, sentence 3
Reptiles are cold-blooded: they get their body heat from their surroundings.
Who acts: Reptiles · What happens: be, get, heat · To what, where: Reptiles, body heat, surroundings
This is a sentence of the lesson «Giant reptiles of the past: Titanoboa, Sarcosuchus, Deinosuchus and giant tortoises» 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 (Reptiles), 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 | Reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 blooded | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blooded | cop |
| 3 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blooded | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 cold | punct |
| 5 | blooded | blood | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 blooded | parataxis |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heat | nmod:poss |
| 10 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heat | compound |
| 11 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 surroundings | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 14 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 8 get | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blooded | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · passive | Reptiles | blood property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | Reptiles = reptile | Reptiles's body heat | Reptiles's surroundings | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent heat=Theme from surroundings=Source | |||
| 3 | heat | Reptiles = reptile | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: poss=agent |
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:383-giant-reptiles-of-the-past-titanoboa-sarcosuchus-deinosuchus-and-giant-tortoises.lesson:3.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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