The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 6

A chameleon's tongue can stretch to about twice its body length and shoots out in a split second, with a sticky tip that grabs the insect.

Who acts: tongue, sticky tip · What happens: stretch, shoot out, grab · To what, where: body length, insect

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 (tongue, sticky tip), 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 chameleon	det
2	chameleon	chameleon	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tongue	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 chameleon	case
4	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretch	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 stretch	aux
6	stretch	stretch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	12 length	case
8	about	about	ADV	_	9 twice	advmod
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	12 length	advmod
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 length	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 length	compound
12	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stretch	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 shoots	cc
14	shoots	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 stretch	conj
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 shoots	compound:prt
16	in	in	ADP	_	19 second	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 second	det
18	split	split	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 second	amod
19	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shoots	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tip	punct
21	with	with	ADP	_	24 tip	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 tip	det
23	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tip	amod
24	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 shoots	obl
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 grabs	nsubj
26	grabs	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 tip	acl:relcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 insect	det
28	insect	insect	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 grabs	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 stretch	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch	can	a chameleon's tongue		tongue's body length			vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to length=Location
2	shoot out	present	a chameleon's tongue not said here			second	with a sticky tip	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with tip=Instrument
3	grab	present	a sticky tip	the insect				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insect=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:6.

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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