Fish, frogs and reptiles, sentence 5
Reptiles have dry, scaly skin that keeps water in, and their eggs have a tough shell, so they can live far from water, even in deserts.
Who acts: Reptiles, dry scaly skin, eggs · What happens: have, keep in, live · To what, where: dry scaly skin, water, tough shell, 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 (Reptiles, dry scaly skin, 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 | Reptiles | reptile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 dry | punct |
| 5 | scaly | scaly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 skin | amod |
| 6 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 keeps | nsubj |
| 8 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 skin | acl:relcl |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 keeps | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 keeps | compound:prt |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 have | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 have | cc |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 have | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 have | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 shell | det |
| 17 | tough | tough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shell | amod |
| 18 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 have | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 live | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 live | advmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 live | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 live | aux |
| 23 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | advcl |
| 24 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 live | advmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 far | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 deserts | punct |
| 28 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 deserts | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 deserts | case |
| 30 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 live | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 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 | Reptiles | dry scaly skin | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 2 | keep in | present | dry scaly skin | water | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | present | Reptiles's eggs | a tough shell | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shell=Patient | ||||
| 4 | live | can | eggs = egg | deserts | far property | 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:5.
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 ×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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