Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 18
Reptiles' dry, scaly skin keeps water in their bodies, so many can live in deserts.
Who acts: dry scaly skin, many · What happens: keep, live · To what, where: water, bodies, deserts
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 (dry scaly skin, many), 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 | Reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 skin | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ' | 's | PART | _ | 1 Reptiles | case |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 skin | punct |
| 5 | scaly | scaly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | nsubj |
| 7 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 keeps | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 bodies | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bodies | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 keeps | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 live | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 live | advmod |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 live | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 live | aux |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 keeps | parataxis |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 deserts | case |
| 18 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 live | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 keeps | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | Reptiles's dry scaly skin | water | Reptiles's bodies | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent water=Theme in body=Location | |||
| 2 | live | can | many | deserts | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Location |
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:18.
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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1. 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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