The desert: living with little water, sentence 16

The greater roadrunner is a cuckoo that runs at about 30 km per hour, eats lizards, insects and even rattlesnakes, and warms up on cold mornings by showing dark skin to the sun.

Who acts: greater roadrunner, cuckoo · What happens: be, run, eat, warm up, show · To what, where: cuckoo, 30 km, lizards, dark skin, sun.

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 (greater roadrunner, cuckoo), 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	3 roadrunner	det
2	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 roadrunner	amod
3	roadrunner	roadrunner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cuckoo	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cuckoo	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cuckoo	det
6	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 runs	nsubj
8	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cuckoo	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 km	case
10	about	about	ADV	_	11 30	advmod
11	30	30	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	12 km	nummod
12	km	km	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 runs	obl
13	per	per	ADP	_	14 hour	case
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 km	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 eats	punct
16	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 runs	conj
17	lizards	lizard	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 eats	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 insects	punct
19	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lizards	conj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 rattlesnakes	cc
21	even	even	ADV	_	22 rattlesnakes	advmod
22	rattlesnakes	rattlesnake	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 lizards	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 warms	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 warms	cc
25	warms	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 runs	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 warms	compound:prt
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 mornings	case
28	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mornings	amod
29	mornings	morning	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 warms	obl
30	by	by	SCONJ	_	31 showing	mark
31	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 warms	advcl
32	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 skin	amod
33	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 showing	obj
34	to	to	ADP	_	36 sun.	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 sun.	det
36	sun.	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 showing	obl

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	is a	present	the greater roadrunner	a cuckoo				tree rules
2	run	present	a cuckoo			30 km per hour		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at km=Trajectory
3	eat	present	a cuckoo not said here	lizards and insects and rattlesnakes				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lizard=Patient
4	warm up	present	a cuckoo not said here				morning	vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	show	gerund	a cuckoo not said here	dark skin	the sun.			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent skin=Topic to sun=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:16.

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): R3-conj-first ×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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