Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 15

Vultures have bare heads that stay clean when they feed inside dead animals, and their strong stomach acid kills germs that would make other animals ill.

Who acts: Vultures, bare heads, heads, strong stomach acid, germs · What happens: have, stay, feed, kill, make · To what, where: bare heads, dead animals, germs, other animals

This is a sentence of the lesson «Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show» 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 (Vultures, bare heads, heads, strong stomach acid), 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	Vultures	vulture	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 heads	amod
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 have	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stay	nsubj
6	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 heads	acl:relcl
7	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stay	xcomp
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 feed	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 feed	nsubj
10	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 clean	advcl
11	inside	inside	ADV	_	10 feed	advmod
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 animals	amod
13	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 feed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 kills	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 kills	cc
16	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 acid	nmod:poss
17	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 acid	amod
18	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 acid	compound
19	acid	acid	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 kills	nsubj
20	kills	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 feed	conj
21	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 kills	obj
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 make	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 make	aux
24	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 germs	acl:relcl
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 animals	amod
26	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 make	obj
27	ill	ill	ADJ	_	24 make	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 have	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	Vultures	bare heads		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	stay	present	bare heads		clean property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	feed	present	heads = head	dead animals	inside property	vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	kill	present	heads's strong stomach acid	germs		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent germ=Theme
5	make	would	germs	other animals	ill property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset animal=Product

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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:15.

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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, 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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