The desert: living with little water, sentence 15

The Australian thorny devil eats thousands of small ants at a meal, draws water from damp sand through grooves in its skin to its mouth and shows a spiny false head to predators.

Who acts: Australian thorny devil · What happens: eat, draw, show · To what, where: thousands, meal, water, damp sand, spiny false head, predators

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 (Australian thorny devil), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 devil	det
2	Australian	Australian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 devil	amod
3	thorny	thorny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 devil	amod
4	devil	devil	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eats	nsubj
5	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eats	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 ants	case
8	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ants	amod
9	ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 thousands	nmod
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 meal	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 meal	det
12	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eats	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 draws	punct
14	draws	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eats	conj
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draws	obj
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 sand	case
17	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sand	amod
18	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draws	obl
19	through	through	ADP	_	20 grooves	case
20	grooves	groove	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 draws	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 skin	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 skin	nmod:poss
23	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grooves	nmod
24	to	to	ADP	_	26 mouth	case
25	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mouth	nmod:poss
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 draws	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 shows	cc
28	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 eats	conj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 head	det
30	spiny	spiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 head	amod
31	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 head	amod
32	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 shows	obj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 predators	case
34	predators	predator	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 shows	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 eats	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	present	the Australian thorny devil	thousands of small ants		a meal		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thousand=Patient
2	draw	present	the Australian thorny devil not said here	water		damp sand	through grooves in water's skin; to water's mouth	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent water=Theme from sand=Initial_Location to mouth=Destination
3	show	present	the Australian thorny devil not said here	a spiny false head	predators			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent head=Topic to predator=Recipient

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:15.

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. 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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