Babies: eggs, live birth, pouches and parents, sentence 3

Cartoons give every baby a mum who does all the work and a stork that brings it; in real life the seahorse dad carries the eggs, the cuckoo mum tricks other birds into raising her chick, and the crocodile mum carries her babies gently in her jaws.

Who acts: Cartoons, mum, stork, seahorse dad, cuckoo mum, crocodile mum · What happens: give, do, bring, carry, trick, raise · To what, where: mum, baby, work, stork, eggs, real life

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 (Cartoons, mum, stork, seahorse dad), 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	Cartoons	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 give	nsubj
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 baby	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 mum	det
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 does	nsubj
8	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 mum	acl:relcl
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 work	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 work	det
11	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 does	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 stork	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stork	det
14	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 work	conj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 brings	nsubj
16	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 stork	acl:relcl
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 brings	obj
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 carries	punct
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 life	case
20	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 life	amod
21	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carries	obl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 dad	det
23	seahorse	seahorse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 dad	compound
24	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 carries	nsubj
25	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 give	parataxis
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 eggs	det
27	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 carries	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 tricks	punct
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mum	det
30	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mum	compound
31	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 tricks	nsubj
32	tricks	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 carries	parataxis
33	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 birds	amod
34	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 tricks	obj
35	into	into	SCONJ	_	36 raising	mark
36	raising	raise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 tricks	advcl
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 chick	nmod:poss
38	chick	chick	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 raising	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 carries	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 carries	cc
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 mum	det
42	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 mum	compound
43	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 carries	nsubj
44	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 carries	conj
45	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 babies	nmod:poss
46	babies	baby	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 carries	obj
47	gently	gently	ADV	_	44 carries	advmod
48	in	in	ADP	_	50 jaws	case
49	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 jaws	nmod:poss
50	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 carries	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 give	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	Cartoons	a mum	every baby			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent baby=Recipient mum=Theme
2	do	present	a mum	all work and a stork				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	bring	present	a stork	stork				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	carry	present	the seahorse dad	the eggs		real life		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent egg=Value in life=Location
5	trick	present	the cuckoo mum	other birds				vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient
6	raise	gerund	the cuckoo mum not said here	mum's chick				vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chick=Theme
7	carry	present	the crocodile mum	mum's babies		mum's jaws	gently property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent baby=Value in jaw=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:049-babies.lesson:3.

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 ×1, R7-rel-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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