Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 13
Human babies need care from adults for many years, longer than almost any other animal.
Who acts: Human babies · What happens: need · To what, where: care
This is a sentence of the lesson «Mammals and how they care for their young» 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 (Human babies), 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 | Human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 babies | amod |
| 2 | babies | baby | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | nsubj |
| 3 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 need | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 adults | case |
| 6 | adults | adult | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 care | nmod |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 years | case |
| 8 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 years | amod |
| 9 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 need | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 longer | punct |
| 11 | longer | long | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 need | advcl |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 animal | case |
| 13 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 16 animal | advmod |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 animal | det |
| 15 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 animal | amod |
| 16 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 longer | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 need | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | need | present | Human babies | care | year | from adults | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot care=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:075-mammals-and-their-young.lesson:13.
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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