How animals defend themselves, sentence 0

If you cannot run faster than the fox, you need another plan, and animals have hundreds: spines, armour, stinks, poison, tricks, fake eyes, playing dead and standing together.

Who acts: you, animals · What happens: not run, need, have, play, stand together · To what, where: plan, hundreds

This is a sentence of the lesson «How animals defend themselves» 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 (you, animals), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 run	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 run	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 run	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 run	advmod
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 need	advcl
6	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 run	advmod
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 fox	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 run	punct
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 need	nsubj
12	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	14 plan	det
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 need	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
17	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 need	conj
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 have	obj
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 spines	punct
21	spines	spine	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hundreds	appos
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 armour	punct
23	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spines	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stinks	punct
25	stinks	stink	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spines	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 poison	punct
27	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spines	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 tricks	punct
29	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spines	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 eyes	punct
31	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 eyes	amod
32	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spines	conj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 playing	punct
34	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 spines	conj
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 playing	xcomp
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 standing	cc
37	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 playing	conj
38	together	together	ADV	_	37 standing	advmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 need	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not run a condition, not said to happen	can	you		than the fox; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	need	present	you	another plan		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot plan=Theme
3	have	present	animals	hundreds		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Patient
4	play	gerund	animals not said here		dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	stand together	gerund	animals not said here		together property	vn assuming_position-50 «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:053-how-animals-defend-themselves.lesson:0.

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.

See the release 0.4.

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