Groups of animals and how to tell them apart, sentence 7
Most mammals give birth to live young.
Who acts: Most mammals · What happens: give, live · To what, where: birth
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 (Most mammals), 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 mammals | amod |
| 2 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 give | nsubj |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 live | mark |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 birth | acl |
| 7 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 live | xcomp |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | Most mammals | birth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent birth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | Most mammals not said here | birth not said here | young property | vn exist-47.1-1 «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:world:024-animal-groups.lesson:7.
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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