Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 17
Amphibian eggs have no shell, so they are laid in water or damp places.
Who acts: Amphibian eggs · What happens: have, laid · To what, where: shell, eggs, water
This is a sentence of the lesson «Fish, frogs and reptiles» 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 (Amphibian eggs), 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 | Amphibian | amphibian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eggs | amod |
| 2 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 shell | det |
| 5 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 laid | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 laid | advmod |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 laid | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 laid | aux:pass |
| 10 | laid | laid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | parataxis |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 water | case |
| 12 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obl |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 places | cc |
| 14 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 places | amod |
| 15 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 water | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Amphibian eggs | no shell | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | ||||
| 2 | laid | present · passive | eggs = egg | water or damp places | tree rules |
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:074-fish-frogs-reptiles.lesson:17.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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