The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 12
Crocodiles cannot sweat, so they lie with their mouths open to let heat out and go into water or shade.
Who acts: Crocodiles, ribs · What happens: not sweat, lie, let out, go · To what, where: heat, water
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 (Crocodiles, ribs), 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 | Crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sweat | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweat | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 sweat | advmod |
| 4 | sweat | sweat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lie | punct |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 lie | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lie | nsubj |
| 8 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sweat | parataxis |
| 9 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 12 open | mark |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mouths | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mouths | mouth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 open | nsubj |
| 12 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 lie | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 let | mark |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 lie | advcl |
| 15 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 let | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 go | cc |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 water | case |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 go | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 shade | cc |
| 22 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 water | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sweat | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sweat | can | Crocodiles | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | lie | present | ribs = rib | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | let out | to-infinitive | ribs = rib not said here | heat | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | ribs = rib not said here | water or shade | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location |
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:12.
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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