Groups of animals and how to tell them apart, sentence 10
Reptiles have dry, scaly skin and most lay eggs with leathery shells.
Who acts: Reptiles, most · What happens: have, lay · To what, where: dry scaly skin, eggs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Groups of animals and how to tell them apart» of the world 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 (Reptiles, most), 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 | Reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dry | punct |
| 5 | scaly | scaly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lay | cc |
| 8 | most | most | PRON | PronType=Ind | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 10 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 lay | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 shells | case |
| 12 | leathery | leathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 shells | amod |
| 13 | shells | shell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 eggs | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Reptiles | dry scaly skin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | present | most | eggs | with leathery shells | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result |
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:world:024-animal-groups.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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