Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature, sentence 10
Lions are meat-eaters and cannot live on grass; hunting is how they feed themselves and their cubs, not cruelty.
Who acts: Lions, hunting · What happens: be, not live · To what, where: meat eaters, grass
This is a sentence of the lesson «Why living things die, and the circle of life in nature» of the religion ethics 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 (Lions, hunting), 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 | Lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eaters | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaters | cop |
| 3 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eaters | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 meat | punct |
| 5 | eaters | eater | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 live | cc |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 live | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 live | advmod |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eaters | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 grass | case |
| 11 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 live | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hunting | punct |
| 13 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 feed | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 feed | cop |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 feed | advmod |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 feed | nsubj |
| 17 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 eaters | parataxis |
| 18 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 17 feed | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 cubs | cc |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 cubs | nmod:poss |
| 21 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 themselves | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cruelty | punct |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 cruelty | advmod |
| 24 | cruelty | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hunting | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eaters | 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 | Lions | meat eaters | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not live | can | Lions not said here | grass | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on grass=Location | ||||
| 3 | is | present | hunting and cruelty | feed property | tree rules |
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:religion-ethics:053-why-living-things-die-and-the-circle-of-life.lesson:10.
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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