Classifying unusual animals, sentence 15
Snakes are reptiles, and some lizards, like the slow worm, have no legs.
Who acts: Snakes, lizards · What happens: be, have · To what, where: reptiles, legs
This is a sentence of the lesson «Classifying unusual animals» 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 (Snakes, lizards), 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 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 reptiles | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reptiles | cop |
| 3 | reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 have | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 have | cc |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 lizards | det |
| 7 | lizards | lizard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 worm | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 worm | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 worm | det |
| 11 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 worm | amod |
| 12 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lizards | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lizards | punct |
| 14 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reptiles | conj |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 legs | det |
| 16 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 have | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 reptiles | 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 | Snakes | reptiles | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | some lizards like the slow worm | no legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient |
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:029-classifying-unusual-animals.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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