The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs, sentence 14

Flamingos are tall pink wading birds that feed with their heads upside down in shallow water, sieving tiny shrimps and algae with their beaks; their pink comes from that food.

Who acts: Flamingos, tall pink wading birds, pink · What happens: be, feed, sieve, come · To what, where: tall pink wading birds, heads, shallow water, tiny shrimps, food

This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of Wonderland: the dodo, the dormouse, the March hare, flamingos and hedgehogs» 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 (Flamingos, tall pink wading birds, pink), 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	Flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 birds	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 birds	cop
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
4	pink	pink	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 birds	amod
5	wading	wading	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 birds	compound
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 feed	nsubj
8	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 birds	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 upside	case
10	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 heads	nmod:poss
11	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 feed	obl
12	upside	upside	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feed	obl
13	down	down	ADV	_	8 feed	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 water	case
15	shallow	shallow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 water	amod
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sieving	punct
18	sieving	sieve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 feed	advcl
19	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 shrimps	amod
20	shrimps	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sieving	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 algae	cc
22	algae	alga	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shrimps	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 beaks	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 beaks	nmod:poss
25	beaks	beak	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sieving	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 comes	punct
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 pink	nmod:poss
28	pink	pink	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comes	nsubj
29	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 birds	parataxis
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 food	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 food	det
32	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 comes	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 birds	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Flamingos	tall pink wading birds			tree rules
2	feed	present	tall pink wading birds	flamingos's heads	shallow water	with upside; down property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=Location
3	sieve	gerund	tall pink wading birds not said here	tiny shrimps and algae		with flamingos's beaks	vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shrimp=Patient
4	come	present	flamingos's pink		that food		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from food=Initial_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:401-the-real-animals-of-wonderland-dodo-dormouse-hare-flamingo-hedgehog.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 ×4, 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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