Animals of Australia and New Zealand: kangaroos, koalas, wombats, kiwis, sentence 9

The kiwi is a flightless, mostly nocturnal New Zealand bird with nostrils at the tip of its long beak; its egg is about 20 percent of the mother's weight, one of the biggest for body size of any bird.

Who acts: kiwi, egg · What happens: be · To what, where: 20 percent

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 (kiwi, egg), 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 kiwi	det
2	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flightless	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 flightless	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flightless	det
5	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bird	punct
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 nocturnal	advmod
8	nocturnal	nocturnal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bird	amod
9	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Zealand	compound
10	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 bird	compound
11	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flightless	conj
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 nostrils	case
13	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bird	nmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	16 tip	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 tip	det
16	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bird	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 beak	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 beak	nmod:poss
19	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 beak	amod
20	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tip	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 percent	punct
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 egg	nmod:poss
23	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 percent	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 percent	cop
25	about	about	ADV	_	26 20	advmod
26	20	20	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	27 percent	nummod
27	percent	percent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flightless	conj
28	of	of	ADP	_	32 weight	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 mother	det
30	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 weight	nmod:poss
31	's	's	PART	_	30 mother	case
32	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 percent	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 one	punct
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 weight	appos
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 biggest	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 biggest	det
37	biggest	big	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 one	nmod
38	for	for	ADP	_	40 size	case
39	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 size	compound
40	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 biggest	obl
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 bird	case
42	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	43 bird	det
43	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 size	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flightless	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the kiwi					flightless property	tree rules
2	is a	present	kiwi's egg	20 percent				of the mother's weight	tree rules

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:9.

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. 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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