The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 16

A toucan throws food up and catches it in its beak tip, and the beak also lets out heat like a radiator to help the bird cool down.

Who acts: toucan, beak, bird · What happens: throw up, catch, let out, help, cool down · To what, where: food, beak tip, heat, bird

This is a sentence of the lesson «The aviary: the walk-through tropical house» 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 (toucan, beak, bird), 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 toucan	det
2	toucan	toucan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throws	nsubj
3	throws	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 throws	obj
5	up	up	ADP	_	3 throws	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 catches	cc
7	catches	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 throws	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 catches	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 tip	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tip	nmod:poss
11	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tip	compound
12	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 catches	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 lets	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lets	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beak	det
16	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lets	nsubj
17	also	also	ADV	_	18 lets	advmod
18	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 throws	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 lets	compound:prt
20	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 lets	obj
21	like	like	ADP	_	23 radiator	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 radiator	det
23	radiator	radiator	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 heat	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 help	mark
25	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lets	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 bird	det
27	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 help	obj
28	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 help	xcomp
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 cool	compound:prt
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 throws	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed polarity=none

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	throw up	present	a toucan	food			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent food=Theme
2	catch	present	a toucan not said here	food	toucan's beak tip		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	let out	present	the beak	heat		like a radiator	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Theme
4	help	to-infinitive	the beak not said here	the bird			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent bird=Beneficiary clause=Theme
5	cool down	infinitive	the bird not said here				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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:093-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house.lesson:16.

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 ×1, 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.

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