Sleep and hibernation, sentence 3

Some animals sleep through summer instead: the African lungfish digs into drying mud, wraps itself in slime and waits for the rain, and that is called aestivation.

Who acts: animals, African lungfish · What happens: sleep, dig, wrap, wait, call · To what, where: animal, slime, that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Sleep and hibernation» 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, African lungfish), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 animals	det
2	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sleep	nsubj
3	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	5 summer	case
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sleep	obl
6	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 sleep	advmod
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 digs	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lungfish	det
9	African	African	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 lungfish	amod
10	lungfish	lungfish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 digs	nsubj
11	digs	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sleep	parataxis
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 mud	case
13	drying	drying	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mud	compound
14	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 digs	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 wraps	punct
16	wraps	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 digs	conj
17	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	16 wraps	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 slime	case
19	slime	slime	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wraps	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 waits	cc
21	waits	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 digs	conj
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 rain	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 rain	det
24	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 waits	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 called	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 called	cc
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 called	nsubj:pass
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 called	aux:pass
29	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 digs	conj
30	aestivation	aestivation	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 called	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	present	some animals			summer	instead property	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	dig	present	the African lungfish				into drying mud	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.patient»: agent=Agent into mud=Patient
3	wrap	present	the African lungfish not said here	animal	slime			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme in slime=Destination
4	wait	present	the African lungfish not said here				for the rain	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	call	present · passive		that				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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:055-sleep-and-hibernation.lesson:3.

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, R5-strong ×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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