Mammals and how they care for their young, sentence 16
Young mammals learn many skills, such as hunting, by watching and copying their parents.
Who acts: Young mammals · What happens: learn, watch, copy · To what, where: many skills, parents
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 (Young mammals), 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 | Young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mammals | amod |
| 2 | mammals | mammal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learn | nsubj |
| 3 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 skills | amod |
| 5 | skills | skill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 learn | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hunting | punct |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=SCONJ | 9 hunting | case |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 such | fixed |
| 9 | hunting | hunting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skills | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 watching | punct |
| 11 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 12 watching | mark |
| 12 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 hunting | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 copying | cc |
| 14 | copying | copy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 watching | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 copying | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | present | Young mammals | many skills | such hunting | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Topic | |||
| 2 | watch | gerund | Young mammals not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | copy | gerund | Young mammals not said here | mammals's parents | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parent=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:16.
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): R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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