The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab, sentence 3
Living things change very slowly over a great many generations: the young that are born a little better suited to their life survive more often and pass that on to their own young.
Who acts: Living things · What happens: change, bear, survive, pass on · To what, where: great many generations, young, that, own young
This is a sentence of the lesson «The real animals of the Just So Stories: the whale, camel, rhino, leopard, elephant, kangaroo, armadillo and crab» 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 (Living things), 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 | Living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 things | amod |
| 2 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | nsubj |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 slowly | advmod |
| 5 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 change | advmod |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 generations | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 generations | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 generations | amod |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 generations | amod |
| 10 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 young | det |
| 13 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 survive | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 born | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | aux:pass |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 young | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 little | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 better | obl |
| 19 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 suited | advmod |
| 20 | suited | suit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 born | xcomp |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 life | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 suited | obl |
| 24 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 change | parataxis |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 often | advmod |
| 26 | often | often | ADV | _ | 24 survive | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 pass | cc |
| 28 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 survive | conj |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 pass | obj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 pass | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 young | case |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 young | nmod:poss |
| 33 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 young | amod |
| 34 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 pass | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | Living things | over a great many generations | slowly property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | bear | present · passive | the young | suit property | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | survive | present · passive | the young | often property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Circumstance | ||||
| 4 | pass on | present | that | young's own young | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent that=Theme to young=Destination |
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:404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab.lesson:3.
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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/404-the-real-animals-of-the-just-so-stories-whale-camel-rhino-leopard-elephant-kangaroo-armadillo-crab/3/