Hiking and the outdoors, sentence 13
Ticks live in long grass and bushes and bite to feed on blood.
Who acts: Ticks · What happens: live, bite, feed · To what, where: long grass
This is a sentence of the lesson «Hiking and the outdoors» 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), 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 | 2 live | nsubj |
| 2 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grass | amod |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 live | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bushes | cc |
| 7 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 grass | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bite | cc |
| 9 | bite | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 live | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 feed | mark |
| 11 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 bite | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 blood | case |
| 13 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 live | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | Ticks | long grass and bushes | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in grass=Location | ||||
| 2 | bite | present | Ticks not said here | vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feed | to-infinitive | Ticks not said here | on blood | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on blood=Patient |
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:047-hiking-and-the-outdoors.lesson:13.
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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