The desert: living with little water, sentence 10

Namib fog-basking beetles stand head-down in the morning sea fog so that drops collect on their backs and run down to their mouths.

Who acts: Namib basking beetles, drops · What happens: bask, stand down, collect, run down · To what, where: head, morning sea fog, backs

This is a sentence of the lesson «The desert: living with little water» 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 (Namib basking beetles, drops), 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	Namib	Namib	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 beetles	compound
2	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Namib	appos
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 fog	punct
4	basking	bask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 beetles	amod
5	beetles	beetle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stand	nsubj
6	stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obj
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 head	punct
9	down	down	ADV	_	6 stand	advmod
10	in	in	ADP	_	14 fog	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fog	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fog	compound
13	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fog	compound
14	fog	fog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stand	obl
15	so	so	SCONJ	_	18 collect	mark
16	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 drops	det
17	drops	drop	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 collect	nsubj
18	collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stand	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 backs	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 backs	nmod:poss
21	backs	back	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 collect	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 run	cc
23	run	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 collect	conj
24	down	down	ADV	_	23 run	advmod
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 mouths	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mouths	nmod:poss
27	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 run	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stand	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bask	gerund					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	stand down	present	Namib basking beetles	head	the morning sea fog	down property	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme in fog=Destination
3	collect	present	that drops		drops's backs		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	run down	present	that drops not said here			to drops's mouths result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to mouth=Result

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:005-the-desert.lesson:10.

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 ×3, 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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