Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 15
In an elephant herd, the older females help to look after the calves.
Who acts: older females · What happens: help, look · To what, where: elephant herd
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 (older females), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 herd | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 herd | det |
| 3 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 herd | compound |
| 4 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 help | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 herd | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 females | det |
| 7 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 females | amod |
| 8 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 help | nsubj |
| 9 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 look | mark |
| 11 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 help | xcomp |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 calves | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 calves | det |
| 14 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 look | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 help | 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 | help | present | the older females | a elephant herd | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | the older females not said here | after the calves | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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:15.
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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