The African savanna area: giraffes, zebras, rhinos and antelopes, sentence 3
Cartoons such as Madagascar make the zebra and the giraffe chatty friends of a lion, but on the real savanna a lion is the animal they watch for all day, and even a giraffe's neck has only seven bones, the same as yours.
Who acts: Cartoons, lion, lions, neck · What happens: make, be, watch, have · To what, where: zebra, animal, real savanna, seven bones
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 (Cartoons, lion, lions, neck), 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 | Cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 make | nsubj |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 Madagascar | case |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 2 such | fixed |
| 4 | Madagascar | Madagascar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Cartoons | nmod |
| 5 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 zebra | det |
| 7 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 friends | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 giraffe | det |
| 10 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friends | compound |
| 11 | chatty | chatty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friends | amod |
| 12 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 zebra | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 lion | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 lion | det |
| 15 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 friends | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 animal | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 animal | cc |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 savanna | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 savanna | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 savanna | amod |
| 21 | savanna | savanna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 animal | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lion | det |
| 23 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 animal | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 animal | cop |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 animal | det |
| 26 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 make | conj |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 watch | nsubj |
| 28 | watch | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 animal | acl:relcl |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 day | case |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 day | det |
| 31 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 watch | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 has | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 has | cc |
| 34 | even | even | ADV | _ | 36 giraffe | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 giraffe | det |
| 36 | giraffe | giraffe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 neck | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 giraffe | case |
| 38 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 has | nsubj |
| 39 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 make | conj |
| 40 | only | only | ADV | _ | 41 seven | advmod |
| 41 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 bones | nummod |
| 42 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 has | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 same | punct |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 same | det |
| 45 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 bones | amod |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 yours | case |
| 47 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 same | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 make | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Cartoons such Madagascar | the zebra and giraffe chatty friends of a lion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset zebra=Product | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | a lion | the animal | the real savanna | tree rules | |||
| 3 | watch | present | lions = lion | the animal not said here | day | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | |||
| 4 | have | present | a giraffe's neck | seven bones | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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:biology:101-the-african-savanna-area-giraffes-zebras-rhinos.lesson:3.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-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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