The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 13
Alligators have wide U-shaped snouts that hide their lower teeth; crocodiles have V-shaped snouts with a big lower tooth showing, and southern Florida is the only place they live side by side in the wild.
Who acts: Alligators, wide U shaped snouts, crocodiles, southern Florida · What happens: have, shape, hide, be, live · To what, where: wide U shaped snouts, lower teeth, V shaped snouts, only place, side, wild
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 (Alligators, wide U shaped snouts, crocodiles, southern Florida), 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 | Alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 snouts | amod |
| 4 | U | U | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 snouts | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 U | punct |
| 6 | shaped | shape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 snouts | amod |
| 7 | snouts | snout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hide | nsubj |
| 9 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 snouts | acl:relcl |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 teeth | amod |
| 12 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hide | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 14 | crocodiles | crocodile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 16 | V | V | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 19 snouts | nummod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 V | punct |
| 18 | shaped | shaped | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 snouts | amod |
| 19 | snouts | snout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 showing | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 tooth | det |
| 22 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tooth | amod |
| 23 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 tooth | amod |
| 24 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 showing | compound |
| 25 | showing | showing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 snouts | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 place | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 place | cc |
| 28 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Florida | amod |
| 29 | Florida | Florida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 place | nsubj |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 place | cop |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 place | det |
| 32 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 place | amod |
| 33 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | conj |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 live | nsubj |
| 35 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 place | acl:relcl |
| 36 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 live | obj |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 side | case |
| 38 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 live | obl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 wild | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 wild | det |
| 41 | wild | wild | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 live | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Alligators | wide U shaped snouts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Patient | ||||
| 2 | shape | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | hide | present | wide U shaped snouts | Alligators's lower teeth | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient | ||||
| 4 | have | present | crocodiles | V shaped snouts | with tooth showing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Patient | |||
| 5 | is a | present | southern Florida | the only place | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | live | present | Alligators = alligator | side | the wild | by side | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme side=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:13.
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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2, R8-pos-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.
See the release 0.4.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/88-reptile-house-komodo-chameleons-tortoises-crocodiles/13/