Parrots, flamingos and the bird of prey show, sentence 9

Flamingos often rest on one leg, even asleep; it takes almost no muscle effort for them, and the backwards-bending joint is really the ankle.

Who acts: Flamingos, it, bending joint · What happens: rest, take, bend, be · To what, where: one leg, muscle effort, ankle

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 (Flamingos, it, bending joint), 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	Flamingos	flamingo	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rest	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 rest	advmod
3	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 leg	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 leg	nummod
6	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 asleep	punct
8	even	even	ADV	_	9 asleep	advmod
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rest	advcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 takes	punct
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 takes	nsubj
12	takes	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rest	parataxis
13	almost	almost	ADV	_	16 effort	advmod
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 effort	det
15	muscle	muscle	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 effort	compound
16	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 takes	obj
17	for	for	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 takes	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ankle	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 ankle	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 joint	det
22	backwards	backward	ADV	_	24 bending	advmod
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 bending	punct
24	bending	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 joint	amod
25	joint	joint	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 ankle	nsubj
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 ankle	cop
27	really	really	ADV	_	29 ankle	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 ankle	det
29	ankle	ankle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rest	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	rest	present	Flamingos		one leg	often property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on leg=Location
2	take	present	it	no muscle effort		for Flamingos = flamingo	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent effort=Theme for they=Beneficiary
3	bend	gerund				backward property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present	the bending joint	the ankle			tree rules

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: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): R2-punct-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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