Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 2
Go into the dark nocturnal room and your eyes slowly find a bilby with huge ears sniffing about and a sugar glider sailing from branch to branch on flaps of skin, while the platypus hunts in its tank with its eyes shut.
Who acts: you, eyes, bilby, sugar glider, platypus · What happens: go, find, sniff about, sail, hunt · To what, where: dark nocturnal room, bilby, branch, tank
This is a sentence of the lesson «Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus» 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 (you, eyes, bilby, sugar glider), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 room | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 room | det |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 5 | nocturnal | nocturnal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 room | amod |
| 6 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 find | cc |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 11 find | advmod |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Go | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 bilby | det |
| 13 | bilby | bilby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ears | case |
| 15 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 ears | amod |
| 16 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 bilby | nmod |
| 17 | sniffing | sniff | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 bilby | acl |
| 18 | about | about | ADV | _ | 17 sniffing | compound:prt |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 glider | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 glider | det |
| 21 | sugar | sugar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 glider | compound |
| 22 | glider | glider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bilby | conj |
| 23 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 glider | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 branch | case |
| 25 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sailing | obl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 branch | case |
| 27 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sailing | nmod |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 flaps | case |
| 29 | flaps | flap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sailing | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 skin | case |
| 31 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 flaps | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 hunts | punct |
| 33 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 hunts | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 platypus | det |
| 35 | platypus | platypus | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hunts | nsubj |
| 36 | hunts | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | advcl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 tank | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 tank | nmod:poss |
| 39 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 hunts | obl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 eyes | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 42 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 tank | nmod |
| 43 | shut | shut | ADV | _ | 36 hunts | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- command
- act
- request
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | the dark nocturnal room | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | find | infinitive | your eyes | a bilby and a sugar glider | with huge ears; slowly property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bilby=Topic | |||
| 3 | sniff about | gerund | a bilby and a sugar glider not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sail | gerund | a sugar glider not said here | branch | to branch; on flaps of skin | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from branch=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | hunt | present | the platypus | skin's tank with tank's eyes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in tank=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:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.lesson:2.
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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-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.
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