Migration and hibernation, sentence 15
Frogs and many reptiles become very slow and still in winter because they cannot keep themselves warm.
Who acts: Frogs · What happens: become, not keep · To what, where: Frogs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Migration and hibernation» 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 (Frogs), 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 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 become | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 reptiles | cc |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reptiles | amod |
| 4 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Frogs | conj |
| 5 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 slow | advmod |
| 7 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 become | xcomp |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 winter | cc |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 winter | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 winter | case |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 slow | conj |
| 12 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 16 keep | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 keep | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 keep | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 keep | advmod |
| 16 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 become | advcl |
| 17 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 keep | obj |
| 18 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 keep | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 become | 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 | become | present | Frogs and many reptiles | slow property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not keep | can | Frogs = frog | Frogs = frog | warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=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:028-migration-and-hibernation.lesson:15.
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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