The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 10
A tortoise's shell is part of its skeleton, joined to its ribs and backbone, so it can never leave it.
Who acts: shell · What happens: be, join, not leave · To what, where: part, tortoise
This is a sentence of the lesson «The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles» 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 (shell), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 tortoise | det |
| 2 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shell | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 tortoise | case |
| 4 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 part | cop |
| 6 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 skeleton | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 skeleton | nmod:poss |
| 9 | skeleton | skeleton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 part | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 joined | punct |
| 11 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 part | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 ribs | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 ribs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ribs | rib | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 joined | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 backbone | cc |
| 16 | backbone | backbone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ribs | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 leave | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 leave | advmod |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 leave | aux |
| 21 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 22 leave | advmod |
| 22 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 joined | advcl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 leave | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 part | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | a tortoise's shell | part | of shell's skeleton | tree rules | |||
| 2 | join | participle | a tortoise's shell not said here | to shell's ribs and backbone | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient to rib=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | not leave | can | shell | tortoise | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:10.
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): 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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