More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 11
It does this by changing the spacing of tiny crystals in their skin.
Who acts: chameleon · What happens: do, change · To what, where: this, spacing
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 (chameleon), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 does | nsubj |
| 2 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 does | obj |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 5 changing | mark |
| 5 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 does | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spacing | det |
| 7 | spacing | spacing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 changing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 crystals | case |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crystals | amod |
| 10 | crystals | crystal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spacing | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 skin | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 skin | nmod:poss |
| 13 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 crystals | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 does | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | chameleon | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | change | gerund | chameleon not said here | the spacing of tiny crystals in crystals's skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spacing=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:045-sloth-narwhal-chameleon-eel-giraffe.lesson:11.
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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