The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 4
Some of the smallest animals here are the rarest of all, and zoos breed them to save kinds that would otherwise disappear.
Who acts: Some, zoos, kinds · What happens: be, breed, save, disappear · To what, where: legs, kinds
This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 (Some, zoos, kinds), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 rarest | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 animals | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 animals | det |
| 4 | smallest | small | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 animals | amod |
| 5 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Some | nmod |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 animals | advmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rarest | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rarest | det |
| 9 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 rarest | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 breed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 breed | cc |
| 14 | zoos | zoo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 breed | nsubj |
| 15 | breed | breed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 rarest | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 breed | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 save | mark |
| 18 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 breed | advcl |
| 19 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 save | obj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 disappear | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 disappear | aux |
| 22 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 23 disappear | advmod |
| 23 | disappear | disappear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 kinds | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rarest | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Some | of all; rare property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | breed | present | zoos | legs = leg | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | save | to-infinitive | zoos not said here | kinds | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | ||||
| 4 | disappear | would | kinds | otherwise property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:4.
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, 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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