The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 18
Mandrills, the monkeys with red and blue faces, live in the rainforests of central Africa, not on the open savanna.
Who acts: Mandrills · What happens: live · To what, where: rainforests
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 (Mandrills), 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 | Mandrills | mandrill | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 live | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 monkeys | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 monkeys | det |
| 4 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Mandrills | appos |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 faces | case |
| 6 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 faces | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 blue | cc |
| 8 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 red | conj |
| 9 | faces | face | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 monkeys | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mandrills | punct |
| 11 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 rainforests | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rainforests | det |
| 14 | rainforests | rainforest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 live | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Africa | case |
| 16 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Africa | amod |
| 17 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 rainforests | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 savanna | punct |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 savanna | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 savanna | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 savanna | det |
| 22 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 savanna | amod |
| 23 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rainforests | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Mandrills | the rainforests of central Africa and the open savanna | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rainforest=Location |
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:18.
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): 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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