Koalas, wombats, Tasmanian devils and the platypus, sentence 3
Taz of Looney Tunes spins like a tornado and eats everything, and cartoons call the koala a bear; a real Tasmanian devil does not spin, though it screeches and eats bones and fur, and the koala is no bear at all.
Who acts: Taz, cartoons, real Tasmanian devil, devil, koala · What happens: spin, eat, call, not spin, screech, be · To what, where: everything, koala, bones, bear, all · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Taz, cartoons, real Tasmanian devil, devil), 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 | Taz | Taz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 spins | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Tunes | case |
| 3 | Looney | Looney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Tunes | compound |
| 4 | Tunes | Tunes | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 Taz | nmod |
| 5 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 tornado | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tornado | det |
| 8 | tornado | tornado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spins | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 eats | cc |
| 10 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spins | conj |
| 11 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 eats | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 call | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 call | cc |
| 14 | cartoons | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 call | nsubj |
| 15 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spins | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 koala | det |
| 17 | koala | koala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 call | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bear | det |
| 19 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 call | xcomp |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 spin | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 devil | det |
| 22 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 devil | amod |
| 23 | Tasmanian | tasmanian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 devil | amod |
| 24 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 spin | nsubj |
| 25 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 spin | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 spin | advmod |
| 27 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 spins | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 screeches | punct |
| 29 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 screeches | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 screeches | nsubj |
| 31 | screeches | screech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 spin | advcl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 eats | cc |
| 33 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 screeches | conj |
| 34 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 eats | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 fur | cc |
| 36 | fur | fur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bones | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 bear | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 bear | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 koala | det |
| 40 | koala | koala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 bear | nsubj |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 bear | cop |
| 42 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 43 bear | det |
| 43 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spins | conj |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 all | case |
| 45 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 bear | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spins | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | Taz of Looney Tunes | like a tornado | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | present | Taz of Looney Tunes not said here | everything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | present | cartoons | the koala | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent koala=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not spin | present · do-support | a real Tasmanian devil | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | screech | present | devil | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | eat | present | devil not said here | bones and fur | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is a | present | the koala | no bear | all | 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:104-koalas-wombats-tasmanian-devils-and-the-platypus.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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