Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 16

The tuatara looks like a lizard but is the last survivor of an ancient group of reptiles; it lives on cool New Zealand islands and can live over 100 years.

Who acts: tuatara · What happens: look, be, live · To what, where: last survivor, cool Zealand islands

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis» 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 (tuatara), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tuatara	det
2	tuatara	tuatara	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	nsubj
3	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 lizard	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 lizard	det
6	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	obl
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 survivor	cc
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 survivor	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 survivor	det
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 survivor	amod
11	survivor	survivor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 looks	conj
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 group	case
13	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 group	det
14	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 group	amod
15	group	group	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 survivor	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 reptiles	case
17	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 group	nmod
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 lives	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 lives	nsubj
20	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 looks	parataxis
21	on	on	ADP	_	25 islands	case
22	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 islands	amod
23	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Zealand	compound
24	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 islands	compound
25	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 lives	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 live	cc
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 live	aux
28	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 lives	conj
29	over	over	ADP	_	31 years	case
30	100	100	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	31 years	nummod
31	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 live	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 looks	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present	the tuatara				like a lizard	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	is a	present	the tuatara not said here	the last survivor			of a ancient group of reptiles	tree rules
3	live	present	tuatara		cool Zealand islands			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location
4	live	can	tuatara not said here			year		vn exist-47.1-1 «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:079-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand.lesson:16.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×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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