The savanna: grass, trees and the great herds, sentence 2

Every animal has its own floor in the savanna kitchen: the giraffe browses at treetop height, the elephant lower down, the zebra on the grass and the meerkat digs for beetles underneath.

Who acts: animal, giraffe, meerkat · What happens: have, browse, dig · To what, where: own floor, savanna kitchen, treetop height, zebra

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 (animal, giraffe, meerkat), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	nsubj
3	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 floor	nmod:poss
5	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 floor	amod
6	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
9	savanna	savanna	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 kitchen	compound
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 has	obl
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	14 browses	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 giraffe	det
13	giraffe	giraffe	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 browses	nsubj
14	browses	browse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 has	parataxis
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 height	case
16	treetop	treetop	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 height	compound
17	height	height	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 browses	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 elephant	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 elephant	det
20	elephant	elephant	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 browses	conj
21	lower	low	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 elephant	amod
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 lower	compound:prt
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 zebra	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 zebra	det
25	zebra	zebra	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 browses	conj
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 grass	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grass	det
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 zebra	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 digs	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 meerkat	det
31	meerkat	meerkat	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 digs	nsubj
32	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 zebra	acl:relcl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 beetles	case
34	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 digs	obl
35	underneath	underneath	ADV	_	32 digs	advmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 has	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	every animal	animal's own floor	the savanna kitchen		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent floor=Patient
2	browse	present	the giraffe		treetop height		tree rules
3	dig	present	the meerkat	the zebra on the grass not said here		for beetles; underneath property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent zebra=Result for beetle=Beneficiary

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:2.

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 ×2, R7-rel-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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