The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 11
Jonathan, a giant tortoise on St Helena, is thought to have hatched in about 1832, making him the oldest known living land animal.
What happens: think, hatch, make, know, live · To what, where: Jonathan, 1832
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: 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 | Jonathan | Jonathan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tortoise | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tortoise | det |
| 4 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 tortoise | amod |
| 5 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Jonathan | appos |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Helena | case |
| 7 | St | St | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Helena | compound |
| 8 | Helena | Helena | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 tortoise | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Jonathan | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | aux:pass |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hatched | mark |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 hatched | aux |
| 14 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 thought | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 hatched | advmod |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 1832 | advmod |
| 17 | 1832 | 1832 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 14 hatched | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 making | punct |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 hatched | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 animal | det |
| 22 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 animal | amod |
| 23 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 animal | amod |
| 24 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 animal | amod |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 animal | compound |
| 26 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 making | xcomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | 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 | think speech: other | present · passive | Jonathan | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hatch | to-infinitive · perfect | 1832 | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP.patient V PP.product»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | make | gerund | Jonathan | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | live | gerund | 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:088-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles.lesson:11.
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 ×2. 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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