Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 21
Animals that get their warmth from their surroundings need much less food than mammals and birds of the same size.
Who acts: Animals · What happens: get, need · To what, where: warmth, surroundings, less food
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 (Animals), 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 | Animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 need | nsubj |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 get | nsubj |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Animals | acl:relcl |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 warmth | nmod:poss |
| 5 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 get | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 surroundings | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 surroundings | nmod:poss |
| 8 | surroundings | surroundings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 get | obl |
| 9 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 11 less | advmod |
| 11 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 food | amod |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 need | obj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 mammals | case |
| 14 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 need | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 birds | cc |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 mammals | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 size | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 size | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 size | amod |
| 20 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 birds | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 need | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | Animals | Animals's warmth | Animals's surroundings | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent warmth=Theme from surroundings=Source | |||
| 2 | need | present | Animals | less food | than mammals and birds of the same size | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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:21.
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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