Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 14
An elephant mother carries her baby for about 22 months before it is born.
Who acts: elephant mother · What happens: carry, bear · To what, where: baby, 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 (elephant mother), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 mother | det |
| 2 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mother | compound |
| 3 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | nsubj |
| 4 | carries | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 baby | nmod:poss |
| 6 | baby | baby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carries | obj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 months | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 9 22 | advmod |
| 9 | 22 | 22 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 months | nummod |
| 10 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 carries | obl |
| 11 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 14 born | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 born | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 born | aux:pass |
| 14 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 carries | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 carries | 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 | carry | present | a elephant mother | mother's baby | month | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent baby=Theme | |||
| 2 | bear | present · passive | care | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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:14.
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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