Animals in the sea and the river, sentence 14

Most crabs walk sideways because of how their legs bend, but some kinds can walk forwards.

Who acts: Most crabs, legs, kinds · What happens: walk, bend

This is a sentence of the lesson «Animals in the sea and the river» of the myths 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 (Most crabs, legs, 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	Most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 crabs	amod
2	crabs	crab	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 walk	nsubj
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sideways	sideway	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod
5	because	because	SCONJ	ExtPos=ADP	10 bend	mark
6	of	of	ADP	_	5 because	fixed
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 bend	advmod
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 legs	nmod:poss
9	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bend	nsubj
10	bend	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 walk	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 walk	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 walk	cc
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	14 kinds	det
14	kinds	kind	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 walk	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 walk	aux
16	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 walk	conj
17	forwards	forward	ADV	_	16 walk	advmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 walk	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	walk	present	Most crabs	sideway property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bend	present	crabs's legs		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	walk	can	some kinds	forward property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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:myths:011-animals-in-the-sea-and-the-river.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): R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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