Food chains and food webs, sentence 10
A predator hunts and eats other animals, called its prey.
Who acts: predator, other animals · What happens: hunt, eat, call · To what, where: other animals, prey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Food chains and food webs» 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 (predator, other animals), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 predator | det |
| 2 | predator | predator | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hunts | nsubj |
| 3 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 eats | cc |
| 5 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hunts | conj |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 animals | amod |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eats | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 called | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 animals | acl |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 prey | nmod:poss |
| 11 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 called | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hunts | 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 | hunt | present | a predator | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | present | a predator not said here | other animals | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | participle | other animals not said here | food's prey | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prey=Recipient |
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:026-food-chains-and-webs.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.
See the release 0.4.
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