The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 6
The slow loris is a small primate from Asia with huge eyes that moves slowly and quietly to sneak up on insects and stay unnoticed.
Who acts: slow loris, small primate · What happens: be, move, sneak up, stay · To what, where: small primate, Asia
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 (slow loris, small primate), 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 | 3 loris | det |
| 2 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 loris | amod |
| 3 | loris | loris | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 primate | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 primate | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 primate | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 primate | amod |
| 7 | primate | primate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Asia | case |
| 9 | Asia | Asia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 primate | nmod |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 eyes | amod |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 primate | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 moves | nsubj |
| 14 | moves | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 primate | acl:relcl |
| 15 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 14 moves | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 quietly | cc |
| 17 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 slowly | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 sneak | mark |
| 19 | sneak | sneak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 moves | advcl |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 sneak | compound:prt |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 insects | case |
| 22 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 sneak | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 stay | cc |
| 24 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sneak | conj |
| 25 | unnoticed | unnoticed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 stay | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 primate | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the slow loris | a small primate | Asia | with huge eyes | tree rules | ||
| 2 | move | present | a small primate | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sneak up | to-infinitive | a small primate not said here | on insects | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on insect=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | stay | infinitive | a small primate not said here | unnoticed property | vn exist-47.1 «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:095-the-nocturnal-house-night-animals-by-red-light.lesson:6.
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): no change. 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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