The nocturnal house: night animals by red light, sentence 9
The aye-aye of Madagascar taps on wood, listens for hollow grub tunnels, gnaws a hole and hooks the grub out with the long thin middle one of the five fingers on each hand, doing a woodpecker's job.
Who acts: aye aye, woodpecker · What happens: tap, listen, gnaw, hook out, do, job · To what, where: hole, grub, job
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 (aye aye, woodpecker), 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 | 4 aye | det |
| 2 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 aye | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 aye | punct |
| 4 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taps | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Madagascar | case |
| 6 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 aye | nmod |
| 7 | taps | tap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taps | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 listens | punct |
| 11 | listens | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 taps | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 tunnels | case |
| 13 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 tunnels | amod |
| 14 | grub | grub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tunnels | compound |
| 15 | tunnels | tunnel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 listens | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gnaws | punct |
| 17 | gnaws | gnaw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 listens | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 hole | det |
| 19 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gnaws | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hooks | cc |
| 21 | hooks | hook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 gnaws | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grub | det |
| 23 | grub | grub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hooks | obj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 hooks | compound:prt |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 27 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 28 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 29 | middle | middle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hooks | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 fingers | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 fingers | det |
| 33 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 fingers | nummod |
| 34 | fingers | finger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 one | nmod |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 hand | case |
| 36 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 hand | det |
| 37 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fingers | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 doing | punct |
| 39 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 gnaws | conj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 woodpecker | det |
| 41 | woodpecker | woodpecker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 job | nmod:poss |
| 42 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 41 woodpecker | case |
| 43 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 doing | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 taps | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tap | present | the aye aye of Madagascar | on wood | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on wood=Patient | ||||
| 2 | listen | present | the aye aye of Madagascar not said here | for hollow grub tunnels | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for tunnel=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gnaw | present | the aye aye of Madagascar not said here | a hole | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hook out | present | the aye aye of Madagascar not said here | the grub | with the long thin middle one of the five fingers on each hand | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP PP.co-patient PP.instrument»: agent=Agent grub=Patient with one=Instrument | |||
| 5 | do | gerund | the aye aye of Madagascar not said here | a woodpecker's job | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | job | a woodpecker | nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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: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): R5-strong ×3, R6-punct-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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