The axolotl, the tardigrade and the mantis shrimp, sentence 7

Wild axolotls live only in the canals of Lake Xochimilco in Mexico City, are mostly dark brown or olive with speckles, and are critically endangered because of drained, polluted water and introduced fish.

Who acts: Wild axolotls · What happens: live, be, endanger, drain, pollute, introduce · To what, where: canals, fish

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 (Wild axolotls), 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	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 axolotls	amod
2	axolotls	axolotl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	nsubj
3	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	3 live	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 canals	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 canals	det
7	canals	canal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 live	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 Lake	case
9	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 canals	nmod
10	Xochimilco	Xochimilco	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Lake	flat
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 City	case
12	Mexico	Mexico	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 City	compound
13	City	City	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Lake	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 brown	punct
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 brown	cop
16	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	18 brown	advmod
17	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brown	amod
18	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 live	conj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 olive	cc
20	olive	olive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 brown	conj
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 speckles	case
22	speckles	speckle	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 olive	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 endangered	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 endangered	cc
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 endangered	aux:pass
26	critically	critically	ADV	_	27 endangered	advmod
27	endangered	endanger	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 live	conj
28	because	because	ADP	_	33 water	case
29	of	of	ADP	_	28 because	fixed
30	drained	drain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 water	amod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 drained	punct
32	polluted	pollute	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	33 water	amod
33	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 endangered	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 introduced	cc
35	introduced	introduce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 endangered	conj
36	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 introduced	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	present	Wild axolotls		the canals of Lake in Mexico City		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in canal=Location
2	is	present	Wild axolotls not said here			brown, mostly property	tree rules
3	be		Wild axolotls not said here			with speckles	tree rules
4	endanger	present · passive	Wild axolotls not said here			because drained polluted water; critically property	tree rules
5	drain	participle					vn clear-10.3-1 «NP.Source V»: agent=Source
6	pollute	participle					tree rules
7	introduce	past	Wild axolotls not said here	fish			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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:7.

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): no change. 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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