Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 13
A mother crocodile digs open her nest when the babies squeak inside the eggs, carries them gently to the water in her mouth and guards them for weeks or months.
Who acts: mother crocodile, babies · What happens: dig, squeak, carry, guard · To what, where: open nest, eggs, babies, mouth
This is a sentence of the lesson «Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents» 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 (mother crocodile, babies), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crocodile | det |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 crocodile | compound |
| 3 | crocodile | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 digs | nsubj |
| 4 | digs | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 nest | amod |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 digs | obj |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 carries | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 babies | det |
| 10 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 squeak | nsubj |
| 11 | squeak | squeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 digs | advcl |
| 12 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 14 eggs | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 eggs | det |
| 14 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 squeak | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 carries | punct |
| 16 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 digs | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carries | obj |
| 18 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 16 carries | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carries | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 mouth | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carries | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 guards | cc |
| 26 | guards | guard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 digs | conj |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 guards | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 weeks | case |
| 29 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 guards | obl |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 31 months | cc |
| 31 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 weeks | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 digs | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | present | a mother crocodile | turtle's open nest | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent nest=Theme | ||||
| 2 | squeak | present | the babies | the eggs | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme inside egg=Location | ||||
| 3 | carry | present | a mother crocodile not said here | babies = baby | turtle's mouth | to the water; gently property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to water=Destination | ||
| 4 | guard | present | a mother crocodile not said here | babies = baby | week | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
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:049-babies.lesson:13.
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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2. 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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