How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry, sentence 17
Leaf insects are flat and green with leaf veins and even brown spots like bite marks, and some rock gently like a leaf in the breeze.
Who acts: Leaf insects, some · What happens: be, rock
This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hide: camouflage and mimicry» 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 (Leaf insects, some), 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 | Leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 insects | compound |
| 2 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 flat | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flat | cop |
| 4 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 green | cc |
| 6 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 flat | conj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 veins | case |
| 8 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 veins | compound |
| 9 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 green | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 spots | cc |
| 11 | even | even | ADV | _ | 13 spots | advmod |
| 12 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spots | amod |
| 13 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 veins | conj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 marks | case |
| 15 | bite | bite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 marks | compound |
| 16 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 spots | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 rock | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 rock | cc |
| 19 | some | some | PRON | PronType=Ind | 20 rock | nsubj |
| 20 | rock | rock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 flat | conj |
| 21 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 20 rock | advmod |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 leaf | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 leaf | det |
| 24 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 rock | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 breeze | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 breeze | det |
| 27 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leaf | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flat | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- changed polarity=none
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Leaf insects | flat property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Leaf insects not said here | with leaf veins and brown spots like bite marks | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | rock | present | some | like a leaf in the breeze; gently property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=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:051-how-animals-hide.lesson:17.
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): no change. 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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