More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 0
Every record-breaking body is an answer to a problem: the sloth is slow because leaves give little energy, the giraffe is tall to reach leaves nobody else can, and the electric eel makes shocks to hunt in muddy water.
Who acts: record breaking body, sloth, leaves, giraffe, electric eel · What happens: break, be, give, reach, make, hunt · To what, where: answer, little energy, leaves, shocks, muddy water
This is a sentence of the lesson «More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe» 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 (record breaking body, sloth, leaves, giraffe), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 body | det |
| 2 | record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 body | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 body | punct |
| 4 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 body | amod |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answer | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answer | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 answer | det |
| 8 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 problem | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 problem | det |
| 11 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answer | nmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 slow | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sloth | det |
| 14 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slow | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 slow | cop |
| 16 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 answer | parataxis |
| 17 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 19 give | mark |
| 18 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 give | nsubj |
| 19 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 slow | advcl |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 energy | amod |
| 21 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 give | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 tall | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 giraffe | det |
| 24 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 tall | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 tall | cop |
| 26 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 slow | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 reach | mark |
| 28 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 tall | advcl |
| 29 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 reach | obj |
| 30 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 29 leaves | nmod |
| 31 | else | else | ADV | _ | 30 nobody | advmod |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 makes | aux |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 makes | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 makes | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 eel | det |
| 36 | electric | electric | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 eel | amod |
| 37 | eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 makes | nsubj |
| 38 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 slow | conj |
| 39 | shocks | shock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 makes | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 hunt | mark |
| 41 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 makes | advcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 water | case |
| 43 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 water | amod |
| 44 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 hunt | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answer | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | gerund | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | present | every record breaking body | a answer | to a problem | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | the sloth | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | give | present | leaves | little energy | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | present | the giraffe | tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | reach | to-infinitive | the giraffe not said here | leaves nobody | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make | can | the electric eel | shocks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shock=Product | ||||
| 8 | hunt | to-infinitive | the electric eel not said here | muddy water | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in water=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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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