The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas, sentence 0
The second half of the African area is full of animals that cartoons get wrong: the hippo is no ballerina, the ostrich does not hide its head, and the hyena is not just a sneaky thief.
Who acts: second half, cartoons, hippo, ostrich, hyena · What happens: be, get, not hide, not be · To what, where: animals, ballerina, head, sneaky thief
This is a sentence of the lesson «The African savanna area: hippos, meerkats, ostriches, wild dogs and hyenas» 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 (second half, cartoons, hippo, ostrich), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 half | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 half | amod |
| 3 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 9 full | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 area | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 area | det |
| 6 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 area | amod |
| 7 | area | area | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 half | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 full | cop |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 animals | case |
| 11 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 full | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 get | obj |
| 13 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 get | nsubj |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 animals | acl:relcl |
| 15 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 get | xcomp |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 ballerina | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hippo | det |
| 18 | hippo | hippo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ballerina | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ballerina | cop |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 ballerina | det |
| 21 | ballerina | ballerina | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 get | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 hide | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ostrich | det |
| 24 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hide | nsubj |
| 25 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 hide | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 hide | advmod |
| 27 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 full | conj |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hide | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 thief | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 thief | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hyena | det |
| 33 | hyena | hyena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 thief | nsubj |
| 34 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 thief | cop |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 thief | advmod |
| 36 | just | just | ADV | _ | 39 thief | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 thief | det |
| 38 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 thief | amod |
| 39 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 hide | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 full | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- neg
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the second half of the African area | of animals; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | present | cartoons | animals | wrong property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is a | present | the hippo | no ballerina | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not hide | present · do-support | the ostrich | ostrich's head | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not is a | present | the hyena | a sneaky thief | tree rules |
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:102-the-african-savanna-area-hippos-meerkats-ostriches.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): 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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