The aviary: the walk-through tropical house, sentence 8

A hornbill's huge beak is mostly hollow and light, and a female hornbill seals herself into a tree hole with mud while the male feeds her through a slit.

Who acts: huge beak, female hornbill, male · What happens: be, seal, feed · To what, where: hornbill, tree hole, slit

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 (huge beak, female hornbill, male), 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 hornbill	det
2	hornbill	hornbill	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beak	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 hornbill	case
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beak	amod
5	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hollow	nsubj
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hollow	cop
7	mostly	mostly	ADV	_	8 hollow	advmod
8	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 light	cc
10	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hollow	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 seals	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 seals	cc
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 hornbill	det
14	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 hornbill	amod
15	hornbill	hornbill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seals	nsubj
16	seals	seal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 hollow	conj
17	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 seals	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	21 hole	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hole	det
20	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hole	compound
21	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seals	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	23 mud	case
23	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hole	nmod
24	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 feeds	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 male	det
26	male	male	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feeds	nsubj
27	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 seals	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 feeds	obj
29	through	through	ADP	_	31 slit	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 slit	det
31	slit	slit	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 feeds	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 hollow	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	a hornbill's huge beak				hollow, mostly property	tree rules
2	be		a hornbill's huge beak not said here					tree rules
3	seal	present	a female hornbill	hornbill		a tree hole with mud		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Patient
4	feed	present	the male		hornbill	a slit		vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent her=Recipient

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:8.

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 ×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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