The desert: living with little water, sentence 13

Kangaroo rats can live without ever drinking: they get water from dry seeds and from burning their food, make very concentrated urine and plug their cool burrows by day.

Who acts: Kangaroo rats, seeds · What happens: live, drink, get, burn, make, plug · To what, where: water, dry seeds, food, concentrated urine, cool burrows

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 (Kangaroo rats, seeds), 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	Kangaroo	kangaroo	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rats	compound
2	rats	rat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 live	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 live	aux
4	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	without	without	SCONJ	_	7 drinking	mark
6	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	7 drinking	advmod
7	drinking	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 live	xcomp
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 get	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 get	nsubj
10	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 live	parataxis
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 get	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 seeds	case
13	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 seeds	amod
14	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 get	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 make	cc
16	from	from	SCONJ	_	17 burning	mark
17	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 make	advcl
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 food	nmod:poss
19	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burning	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 make	punct
21	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 get	conj
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 concentrated	advmod
23	concentrated	concentrate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 urine	amod
24	urine	urine	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 make	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 plug	cc
26	plug	plug	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 make	conj
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 burrows	nmod:poss
28	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 burrows	amod
29	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 plug	obj
30	by	by	ADP	_	31 day	case
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 plug	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 live	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	live	can	Kangaroo rats				tree rules
2	drink	gerund	Kangaroo rats not said here			ever	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	present	seeds = seed	water	dry seeds		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from seed=Source
4	burn	gerund		seeds's food			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme
5	make	present	seeds = seed not said here	concentrated urine			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset urine=Product
6	plug	present	seeds = seed not said here	seeds's cool burrows		day	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme burrow=Destination

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: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 ×2, R6-punct-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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