Wild birds, bats and germs from animals, sentence 14
Ticks are tiny biters that live in long grass and woods and can spread Lyme disease.
Who acts: Ticks, tiny biters · What happens: be, live, spread · To what, where: tiny biters, long grass, Lyme disease
This is a sentence of the lesson «Wild birds, bats and germs from animals» of the everyday 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 (Ticks, tiny biters), 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 | Ticks | tick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 biters | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 biters | cop |
| 3 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 biters | amod |
| 4 | biters | biter | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 biters | acl:relcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 8 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grass | amod |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 woods | cc |
| 11 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 grass | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spread | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 spread | aux |
| 14 | spread | spread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 live | conj |
| 15 | Lyme | lyme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 disease | compound |
| 16 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spread | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 biters | 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 | Ticks | tiny biters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | tiny biters | long grass and woods | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location | ||||
| 3 | spread | can | tiny biters not said here | Lyme disease | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location disease=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:everyday:029-germs-from-animals.lesson:14.
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): R1-cc-next ×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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