The desert: living with little water, sentence 2

Animals also dodge the heat: they hide in burrows by day, come out at night, lift their feet off scorching sand or carry big ears that give off heat like radiators.

Who acts: Animals, big ears · What happens: dodge, hide, come out, lift, scorch, carry · To what, where: heat, burrows, feet, scorching sand, big ears

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 (Animals, big ears), 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	Animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dodge	nsubj
2	also	also	ADV	_	3 dodge	advmod
3	dodge	dodge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 heat	det
5	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dodge	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 hide	punct
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hide	nsubj
8	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	parataxis
9	in	in	ADP	_	10 burrows	case
10	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 hide	obl
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 day	case
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hide	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 come	punct
14	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 dodge	conj
15	out	out	ADV	_	14 come	advmod
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 come	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lift	punct
19	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 come	conj
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 feet	nmod:poss
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lift	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	24 sand	case
23	scorching	scorch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sand	amod
24	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lift	obl
25	or	or	CCONJ	_	26 carry	cc
26	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 lift	conj
27	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 ears	amod
28	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 carry	obj
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 give	nsubj
30	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 ears	acl:relcl
31	off	off	ADP	_	30 give	compound:prt
32	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
33	like	like	ADP	_	34 radiators	case
34	radiators	radiator	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 give	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 dodge	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dodge	present	Animals	the heat				vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent heat=Location
2	hide	present	Animals = animal		burrows	day		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in burrow=Location
3	come out	infinitive	Animals not said here			night	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
4	lift	present	Animals not said here	Animals's feet	scorching sand			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme off sand=Destination
5	scorch	gerund						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	carry	present	Animals not said here	big ears				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
7	give off	present	big ears	heat			like radiators	vn substance_emission-43.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Source heat=Theme

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:2.

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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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