The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 0

Three small animals with superpowers that are real but often told wrong: the axolotl regrows lost legs, the tardigrade survives drying out for years, and the mantis shrimp punches harder than almost anything its size.

Who acts: that, axolotl, tardigrade, mantis shrimp · What happens: be, tell, regrow, lose, survive, dry out · To what, where: lost legs · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp» 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 (that, axolotl, tardigrade, mantis shrimp), 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 animals	nummod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 superpowers	case
5	superpowers	superpower	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 animals	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 real	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 real	cop
8	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 superpowers	amod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
10	often	often	ADV	_	11 told	advmod
11	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 real	conj
12	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 told	xcomp
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 regrows	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 axolotl	det
15	axolotl	axolotl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 regrows	nsubj
16	regrows	regrow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 animals	parataxis
17	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 legs	amod
18	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 regrows	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 survives	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 tardigrade	det
21	tardigrade	tardigrade	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 survives	nsubj
22	survives	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 regrows	conj
23	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 survives	xcomp
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 drying	compound:prt
25	for	for	ADP	_	26 years	case
26	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 drying	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 punches	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 punches	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 shrimp	det
30	mantis	mantis	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shrimp	compound
31	shrimp	shrimp	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 punches	nsubj
32	punches	punch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 regrows	conj
33	harder	hard	ADV	Degree=Cmp	32 punches	advmod
34	than	than	ADP	_	36 anything	case
35	almost	almost	ADV	_	36 anything	advmod
36	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 harder	nsubj
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 size	nmod:poss
38	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 anything	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 animals	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that			real property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	participle	that not said here			often, wrong property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	regrow	present	the axolotl	lost legs			tree rules
4	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	survive	present	the tardigrade				tree rules
6	dry out	gerund	the tardigrade not said here		year		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
7	punch	present	the mantis shrimp			hard property	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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:044-axolotl-tardigrade-mantis-shrimp.lesson:0.

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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3, 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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