How animals hunt, sentence 13

Lying still uses very little energy, so a big python can go weeks between meals, while a tiny shrew burns energy so fast that it must eat every few hours.

Who acts: Lying, big python, tiny shrew, shrew · What happens: lie, use, go, burn, eat · To what, where: little energy, meals, energy

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals hunt» 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 (Lying, big python, tiny shrew, shrew), 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	Lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 uses	csubj
2	still	still	ADV	_	3 uses	advmod
3	uses	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 little	advmod
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 energy	amod
6	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 uses	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 go	advmod
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 python	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 python	amod
11	python	python	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	nsubj
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 uses	parataxis
14	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	obl:unmarked
15	between	between	ADP	_	16 meals	case
16	meals	meal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 energy	punct
18	while	while	SCONJ	_	22 burns	mark
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 shrew	det
20	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 shrew	amod
21	shrew	shrew	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burns	nsubj
22	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 go	advcl
23	energy	energy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 burns	obj
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 fast	advmod
25	fast	fast	ADV	_	22 burns	advmod
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 eat	mark
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 eat	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 eat	aux
29	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 burns	advcl
30	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	32 hours	det
31	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 hours	amod
32	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 eat	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 uses	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	use	present	Lying	little energy		still		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent energy=Patient
3	go	can	a big python		meals	week		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme between meal=Location
4	burn	present	a tiny shrew	energy			fast property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent energy=Theme
5	eat	must	shrew			hour		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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:052-how-animals-hunt.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 ×3, R7-rel-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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