Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 3

A vulture lands last, bald and scruffy, but it is one of nature's cleaners, eating dead animals before their germs can spread.

Who acts: vulture, germs · What happens: land, be, eat, spread · To what, where: one, dead 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 (vulture, germs), 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 vulture	det
2	vulture	vulture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lands	nsubj
3	lands	land	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	last	last	ADV	_	3 lands	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bald	punct
6	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lands	conj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 scruffy	cc
8	scruffy	scruffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 bald	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 one	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 one	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 one	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 one	cop
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 lands	conj
14	of	of	ADP	_	17 cleaners	case
15	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cleaners	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 nature	case
17	cleaners	cleaner	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 eating	punct
19	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 one	advcl
20	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 animals	amod
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 eating	obj
22	before	before	SCONJ	_	26 spread	mark
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 germs	nmod:poss
24	germs	germ	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 spread	nsubj
25	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 spread	aux
26	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 eating	advcl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lands	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	land	present	a vulture		last property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	vulture	one	of nature's cleaners	tree rules
3	eat	gerund	vulture not said here	dead animals		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient
4	spread	can	animals's germs			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:094-parrots-flamingos-and-the-bird-of-prey-show.lesson:3.

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 ×2, R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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