The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 15

Armadillos dig for insects at night with strong claws and are covered in bony plates; only the three-banded armadillos roll into a full ball.

Who acts: Armadillos, three banded armadillos · What happens: dig, cover, band, roll · To what, where: full ball

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 (Armadillos, three banded armadillos), 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	Armadillos	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	nsubj
2	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 insects	case
4	insects	insect	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 night	case
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dig	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 claws	case
8	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 claws	amod
9	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dig	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 covered	cc
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 covered	aux:pass
12	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 dig	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 plates	case
14	bony	bony	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 plates	amod
15	plates	plate	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 roll	punct
17	only	only	ADV	_	22 armadillos	advmod
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 armadillos	det
19	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 armadillos	nummod
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 three	punct
21	banded	band	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 armadillos	amod
22	armadillos	armadillo	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 roll	nsubj
23	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 dig	parataxis
24	into	into	ADP	_	27 ball	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 ball	det
26	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 ball	amod
27	ball	ball	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roll	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 dig	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	present	Armadillos		night	for insects; with strong claws	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with claw=Instrument
2	cover	present · passive	Armadillos not said here			in bony plates	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: in plate=Theme
3	band	participle					vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	roll	present	the three banded armadillos	a full ball			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ball=Destination

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: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): 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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