The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 12

The kiwi of New Zealand is a flightless night bird, safe on the ground because old New Zealand had no ground-hunting mammals, with nostrils at the tip of its beak, and its egg is about a fifth of the mother's weight.

Who acts: kiwi, old New Zealand, egg · What happens: be, have · To what, where: flightless night bird, hunting mammals, fifth

This is a sentence of the lesson «The nocturnal house: night animals by red light» 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 (kiwi, old New Zealand, egg), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 kiwi	det
2	kiwi	kiwi	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 Zealand	case
4	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Zealand	flat
5	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kiwi	nmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 bird	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 bird	det
8	flightless	flightless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bird	compound
10	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 safe	punct
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bird	amod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 safe	obl
16	because	because	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Zealand	amod
18	New	New	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 Zealand	flat
19	Zealand	Zealand	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 safe	advcl
21	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	25 mammals	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 hunting	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 ground	punct
24	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mammals	compound
25	mammals	mammal	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 had	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 nostrils	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 nostrils	case
28	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 mammals	nmod
29	at	at	ADP	_	31 tip	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tip	det
31	tip	tip	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 nostrils	nmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 beak	case
33	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 beak	nmod:poss
34	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tip	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 fifth	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 fifth	cc
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 egg	nmod:poss
38	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fifth	nsubj
39	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 fifth	cop
40	about	about	ADV	_	42 fifth	advmod
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 fifth	det
42	fifth	fifth	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 mammals	conj
43	of	of	ADP	_	47 weight	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 mother	det
45	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 weight	nmod:poss
46	's	's	PART	_	45 mother	case
47	weight	weight	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 fifth	nmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 bird	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the kiwi of New Zealand	a flightless night bird		tree rules
2	have	past	old New Zealand	no hunting mammals and a fifth	with nostrils at the tip of kiwi's beak	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mammal=Patient
3	is a	present	kiwi's egg	a fifth	of the mother's weight; about property	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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:12.

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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×3. 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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