Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses, sentence 13
Rhino horns are made of keratin, the same stuff as hair and nails, so they rot away and rarely become fossils.
Who acts: nails · What happens: make, rot away, become · To what, where: Rhino horns, fossils
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age Ukraine and Europe: cave bears, cave lions, the Siberian unicorn and mammoth-bone houses» 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 (nails), 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 | Rhino | Rhino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 horns | compound |
| 2 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux:pass |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 keratin | case |
| 6 | keratin | keratin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuff | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stuff | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stuff | amod |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 keratin | appos |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 hair | case |
| 12 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuff | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 nails | cc |
| 14 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hair | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rot | punct |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 18 rot | advmod |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 rot | nsubj |
| 18 | rot | rot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | parataxis |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 rot | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 become | cc |
| 21 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 22 become | advmod |
| 22 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 rot | conj |
| 23 | fossils | fossil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 become | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · passive | Rhino horns | of keratin | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | rot away | present | nails = nail | away property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | present | nails = nail not said here | fossils | rarely property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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:385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses.lesson:13.
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): R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×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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