The reptile house: Komodo dragons, chameleons, tortoises and crocodiles, sentence 9
Giant tortoises can weigh over 200 kilograms, live well over 100 years, perhaps helped by their slow, calm lives, and feel touch through their shells and skin.
Who acts: Giant tortoises · What happens: weigh, live, help, feel · To what, where: 200 kilograms, touch, shells
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 (Giant tortoises), 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 | Giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tortoises | amod |
| 2 | tortoises | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weigh | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 weigh | aux |
| 4 | weigh | weigh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADV | _ | 6 200 | advmod |
| 6 | 200 | 200 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 kilograms | nummod |
| 7 | kilograms | kilogram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weigh | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 live | punct |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 weigh | conj |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 live | advmod |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 years | case |
| 12 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 years | nummod |
| 13 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 live | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 helped | punct |
| 15 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 16 helped | advmod |
| 16 | helped | help | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 live | advcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 lives | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 lives | nmod:poss |
| 19 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lives | amod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slow | punct |
| 21 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 lives | amod |
| 22 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 helped | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 feel | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 feel | cc |
| 25 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 helped | conj |
| 26 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feel | obj |
| 27 | through | through | ADP | _ | 29 shells | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 shells | nmod:poss |
| 29 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 feel | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 skin | cc |
| 31 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 shells | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weigh | 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 | weigh | can | Giant tortoises | 200 kilograms | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme kilogram=Value | ||||
| 2 | live | infinitive | Giant tortoises not said here | year | well property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | help | participle | Giant tortoises not said here | by kilograms's slow calm lives; perhaps property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | feel | present | Giant tortoises not said here | touch | kilograms's shells and skin | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent touch=Theme through shell=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:9.
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): R1-cc-next ×1, R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×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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