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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, cow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:12 # text = Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat meat and omnivores eat both: a cow is a herbivore, a cat a carnivore, and bears and people are omnivores, and teeth show what an animal eats: meat-eaters have sharp cutting teeth, plant-eaters flat grinding ones. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Herbivores herbivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 plants plant NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obj _ _ 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 carnivores carnivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 nsubj _ _ 6 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 7 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 9 omnivores omnivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 eat eat VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=6:conj 11 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 10 obj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:obj|HaikuPos=PRON:DT:_ 12 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 cow cow NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 15 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 herbivore herbivore NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 parataxis _ _ 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 cat cat NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 carnivore carnivore NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 25 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nsubj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ _ 28 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 29 cop _ _ 29 omnivores omnivore NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 parataxis _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 32 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 33 nsubj _ _ 33 show show VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 34 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 37 obj _ _ 35 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 animal animal NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nsubj _ _ 37 eats eat VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 33 ccomp _ _ 38 : : PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 meat meat NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ _ 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ _ 41 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=44:nsubj 42 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 43 sharp sharp ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 44 cutting cut VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 45 amod _ _ 45 teeth tooth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 46 , , PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 47 plant plant NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 compound _ _ 48 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 47 punct _ _ 49 eaters eater NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 conj _ _ 50 flat flat ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 51 grinding grind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 52 amod _ _ 52 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obj _ _ 53 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** | present | Herbivores | plants | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plant=Patient | | 2 | **eat** | present | carnivores | meat | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient | | 3 | **eat** | present | omnivores | both | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **is a** | present | a cow | a herbivore and a cat | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **is a** | present | bears and people | omnivores | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **show** | present | teeth | | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 7 | **eat** | present | a animal | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | | 8 | **have** | present | meat eaters and plant eaters | sharp cutting teeth | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **cut** | gerund | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 10 | **grind** | gerund | | | | | | | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:biology:298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals.lesson:12`. **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): R3-conj-first ×1, R5-strong ×1, R8-pos-agree ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats…, 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/11/) - next →: [The big biology quiz, part 1: habitats…, 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/13/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/298-the-big-biology-quiz-part-1-habitats-and-animals/)