The polar zone: arctic foxes, snowy owls, lemmings and reindeer, sentence 3
Rudolph's glowing nose, Hedwig the owl and lemmings jumping off cliffs all come from films; the real stories are a nose full of warm blood, owls that hunt by daylight in summer, and a cliff scene that film makers faked.
Who acts: lemmings, glowing nose, real stories, owls, film makers · What happens: glow, jump off, come, be, hunt, fake · To what, where: cliffs, films, nose, cliff scene
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 (lemmings, glowing nose, real stories, owls), 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 | Rudolph | Rudolph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nose | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Rudolph | case |
| 3 | glowing | glow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 nose | amod |
| 4 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Hedwig | punct |
| 6 | Hedwig | Hedwig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 nose | appos |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 owl | det |
| 8 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Hedwig | appos |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 lemmings | cc |
| 10 | lemmings | lemming | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 owl | conj |
| 11 | jumping | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lemmings | acl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 jumping | compound:prt |
| 13 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 jumping | obj |
| 14 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 films | case |
| 17 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 come | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 nose | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 stories | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 stories | amod |
| 21 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 nose | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 nose | cop |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 nose | det |
| 24 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nose | conj |
| 25 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 nose | amod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 blood | case |
| 27 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 blood | amod |
| 28 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 full | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 owls | punct |
| 30 | owls | owl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 blood | conj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 hunt | nsubj |
| 32 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 owls | acl:relcl |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 daylight | case |
| 34 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hunt | obl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 summer | case |
| 36 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hunt | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 scene | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 scene | cc |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 scene | det |
| 40 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 scene | compound |
| 41 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nose | conj |
| 42 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 faked | obj |
| 43 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 makers | compound |
| 44 | makers | maker | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 faked | nsubj |
| 45 | faked | fake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 scene | acl:relcl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glow | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | jump off | gerund | lemmings not said here | cliffs | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | come | present | Rudolph's glowing nose and a nose and a cliff scene | films | all property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from film=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is a | present | the real stories | a nose | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hunt | present | owls | summer | by daylight | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by daylight=Location | |||
| 6 | fake | past | film makers | a cliff scene | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=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:106-the-polar-zone-arctic-foxes-snowy-owls-lemmings-reindeer.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): R5-strong ×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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