The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 10
Reindeer eyes change from golden in summer to blue in winter, which helps them see in the long dark winter.
Who acts: Reindeer eyes, eyes · What happens: change, help, see · To what, where: golden, eyes
This is a sentence of the lesson «The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer» 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 (Reindeer eyes, eyes), 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 | Reindeer | reindeer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eyes | compound |
| 2 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 change | nsubj |
| 3 | change | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 golden | case |
| 5 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 change | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | ExtPos=SCONJ | 7 summer | case |
| 7 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 golden | obl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 blue | case |
| 9 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 change | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 winter | case |
| 11 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 blue | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 helps | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 helps | nsubj |
| 14 | helps | help | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 blue | acl:relcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 helps | obj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 helps | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 winter | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 winter | det |
| 19 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 winter | amod |
| 20 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 winter | amod |
| 21 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 change | 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 | change | present | Reindeer eyes | golden | to blue result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent from golden=Initial_State to blue=Result | |||
| 2 | help | present | eyes = eye | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | eyes = eye not said here | winter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.lesson:10.
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 ×1, R8-pos-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.
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