More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 12
Each chameleon eye moves on its own, so it can look forward and backward at once; to catch an insect both eyes turn forward and its tongue shoots out, sometimes longer than its body.
Who acts: chameleon eye, eye, eyes, tongue · What happens: move, look, catch, turn, shoot out · To what, where: own, insect
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 eye, eye, eyes, tongue), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 eye | det |
| 2 | chameleon | chameleon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eye | compound |
| 3 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moves | nsubj |
| 4 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 own | case |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 own | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moves | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 look | punct |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 look | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | aux |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 moves | parataxis |
| 13 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 12 look | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 backward | cc |
| 15 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 13 forward | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 once | case |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 look | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 catch | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 catch | mark |
| 20 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 turn | advcl |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 insect | det |
| 22 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 catch | obj |
| 23 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 eyes | det:predet |
| 24 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turn | nsubj |
| 25 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 look | parataxis |
| 26 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 25 turn | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 shoots | cc |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 tongue | nmod:poss |
| 29 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shoots | nsubj |
| 30 | shoots | shoot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 turn | conj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 30 shoots | compound:prt |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 body | punct |
| 33 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 34 longer | advmod |
| 34 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 body | advmod |
| 35 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 body | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 body | nmod:poss |
| 37 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 shoots | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moves | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | present | each chameleon eye | eye's own | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on own=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | look | can | eye | forward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at once=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | both eyes not said here | a insect | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | present | both eyes | forward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | shoot out | present | eye's tongue | than eye's body | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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:12.
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 ×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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