More record-breakers and oddballs: sloth, narwhal, chameleon, electric eel, giraffe, sentence 5
Algae grow in grooves in sloth fur, giving it a greenish tint that may help it hide from harpy eagles, and sloth moths and beetles live in the fur.
Who acts: Algae, greenish tint, sloth, sloth moths · What happens: grow, give, help, hide, live · To what, where: grooves, greenish tint, sloth, fur
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 (Algae, greenish tint, sloth, sloth moths), 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 | Algae | alga | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 grooves | case |
| 4 | grooves | groove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grow | obl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 fur | case |
| 6 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fur | compound |
| 7 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grooves | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 giving | punct |
| 9 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 grow | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 giving | iobj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tint | det |
| 12 | greenish | greenish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tint | amod |
| 13 | tint | tint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 giving | obj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 help | nsubj |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 tint | acl:relcl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 help | xcomp |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 eagles | case |
| 20 | harpy | harpy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eagles | compound |
| 21 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 hide | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 live | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 live | cc |
| 24 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 moths | compound |
| 25 | moths | moth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 live | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beetles | cc |
| 27 | beetles | beetle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 moths | conj |
| 28 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 grow | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 fur | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fur | det |
| 31 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 live | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | Algae | grooves in sloth fur | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in groove=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | gerund | Algae not said here | a greenish tint | sloth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient tint=Theme | |||
| 3 | help | may | a greenish tint | sloth | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hide | infinitive | sloth not said here | from harpy eagles | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from eagle=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | live | present | sloth moths and beetles | the fur | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fur=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:5.
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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