Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 20
Snakes shed their skin as they grow, often in one piece.
Who acts: Snakes, smells · What happens: shed, grow · To what, where: skin, one piece
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 (Snakes, smells), 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 | 2 shed | nsubj |
| 2 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 skin | nmod:poss |
| 4 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shed | obj |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 grow | mark |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grow | nsubj |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 shed | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 piece | punct |
| 9 | often | often | ADV | _ | 12 piece | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 piece | case |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 piece | nummod |
| 12 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shed | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shed | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shed | past | Snakes | smells's skin | one piece | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Source | |||
| 2 | grow | present | smells = smell | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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:074-fish-frogs-reptiles.lesson:20.
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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