The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 14

A meerkat sentry stands guard while the group digs for beetles, scorpions and grubs, and it gives different alarm calls for an eagle in the air and a jackal on the ground.

Who acts: meerkat sentry, group · What happens: stand, dig, give · To what, where: guard, different alarm calls

This is a sentence of the lesson «The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds» 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 (meerkat sentry, group), 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 sentry	det
2	meerkat	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sentry	compound
3	sentry	sentry	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stands	nsubj
4	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	guard	guard	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stands	obj
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	9 digs	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 group	det
8	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 digs	nsubj
9	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stands	advcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 beetles	case
11	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 digs	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scorpions	punct
13	scorpions	scorpion	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 beetles	conj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 grubs	cc
15	grubs	grub	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 beetles	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 gives	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 gives	cc
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 gives	nsubj
19	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stands	conj
20	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 calls	amod
21	alarm	alarm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 calls	compound
22	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 gives	obj
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 eagle	case
24	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 eagle	det
25	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 calls	nmod
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 air	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 air	det
28	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eagle	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 jackal	cc
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 jackal	det
31	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eagle	conj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 ground	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 ground	det
34	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 jackal	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stands	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stand	present	a meerkat sentry	guard		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer guard=Stimulus
2	dig	present	the group		for beetles and scorpions and grubs	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for beetle=Theme
3	give	present	group	different alarm calls	for a eagle in the air and a jackal on the ground	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent call=Theme for eagle=Asset

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:004-the-savanna.lesson:14.

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. 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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