The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 0
At the zoo the African savanna area is one big grassy paddock where giraffes, zebras and antelopes wander together, just as they share the plains of Africa, while the lions live next door behind a strong fence.
Who acts: African savanna area, giraffes, lions · What happens: be, wander, share, live · To what, where: one big grassy paddock, zoo, plains, next door, strong fence
This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes» of the biology 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 (African savanna area, giraffes, lions), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 zoo | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 zoo | det |
| 3 | zoo | zoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paddock | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 area | det |
| 5 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 area | amod |
| 6 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 area | compound |
| 7 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 paddock | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 paddock | cop |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 paddock | nummod |
| 10 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 paddock | amod |
| 11 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 paddock | amod |
| 12 | paddock | paddock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 wander | advmod |
| 14 | giraffes | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wander | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 zebras | punct |
| 16 | zebras | zebras | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 giraffes | conj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 antelopes | cc |
| 18 | antelopes | antelope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 zebras | conj |
| 19 | wander | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 paddock | acl:relcl |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 wander | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 share | punct |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 25 share | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 share | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 share | nsubj |
| 25 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 wander | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 plains | det |
| 27 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 share | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Africa | case |
| 29 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 plains | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 live | punct |
| 31 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 live | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 lions | det |
| 33 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 live | nsubj |
| 34 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 share | advcl |
| 35 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 door | amod |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 live | obl |
| 37 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 40 fence | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fence | det |
| 39 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fence | amod |
| 40 | fence | fence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 live | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 paddock | 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 | is a | present | the African savanna area | one big grassy paddock | the zoo | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wander | present | giraffes and zebras and antelopes | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | share | present | giraffes = giraffe | the plains of Africa | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live | present | the lions | next door | a strong fence | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind fence=Location |
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:biology:101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.lesson:0.
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 ×4. 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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