Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails, sentence 16
Monkeys have tails, but apes, including gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans and humans, do not; we keep only a small tailbone.
Who acts: Monkeys, we · What happens: have, keep · To what, where: tails, small tailbone
This is a sentence of the lesson «Counting animals: legs, arms, wings and tails» 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 (Monkeys, we), 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 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | tails | tail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 apes | cc |
| 6 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 do | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 apes | punct |
| 8 | including | include | ADP | _ | 9 gorillas | case |
| 9 | gorillas | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 apes | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 chimpanzees | punct |
| 11 | chimpanzees | chimpanzee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gorillas | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 orangutans | punct |
| 13 | orangutans | orangutan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 apes | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 humans | cc |
| 15 | humans | human | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 orangutans | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 do | advmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 keep | punct |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 keep | nsubj |
| 21 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | parataxis |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 tailbone | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 tailbone | det |
| 24 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tailbone | amod |
| 25 | tailbone | tailbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 keep | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Monkeys | tails | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | we | a small tailbone | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tailbone=Theme |
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:040-counting-legs-arms-wings-and-tails.lesson:16.
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, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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