Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus, sentence 3
A big body keeps heat in, can live on poor food like twigs and is hard for predators to kill.
Who acts: big body · What happens: keep in, live, be, kill · To what, where: heat, poor food
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammal giants of the past: Paraceratherium, Diprotodon, the giant beaver and Gigantopithecus» 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 (big body), 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 | 3 body | det |
| 2 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 body | amod |
| 3 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | nsubj |
| 4 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 keeps | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 keeps | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 keeps | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 food | case |
| 11 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 twigs | case |
| 14 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 food | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hard | cc |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hard | cop |
| 17 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 keeps | conj |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 19 | predators | predator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 hard | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 predators | acl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep in | present | a big body | heat | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | can | a big body not said here | poor food like twigs | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on food=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | a big body not said here | predators obl; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | a big body not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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:384-mammal-giants-of-the-past-paraceratherium-diprotodon-the-giant-beaver-and-gigantopithecus.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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×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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