Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 4
Real coyotes use no rockets or traps: they stalk, chase and pounce, live in many cities without being seen, and call to their families with yips and howls at night.
Who acts: Real coyotes, rockets · What happens: use, stalk, chase, pounce, live, see · To what, where: rockets, many cities, families · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote» 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 (Real coyotes, rockets), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 coyotes | amod |
| 2 | coyotes | coyote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | nsubj |
| 3 | use | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 rockets | det |
| 5 | rockets | rocket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 use | obj |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 traps | cc |
| 7 | traps | trap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rockets | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 stalk | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stalk | nsubj |
| 10 | stalk | stalk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 use | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 chase | punct |
| 12 | chase | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stalk | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 pounce | cc |
| 14 | pounce | pounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stalk | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 live | punct |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stalk | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 cities | case |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cities | amod |
| 19 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 live | obl |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 22 seen | mark |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 seen | aux:pass |
| 22 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 live | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 call | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 call | cc |
| 25 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 stalk | conj |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 families | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 families | nmod:poss |
| 28 | families | family | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 call | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 yips | case |
| 30 | yips | yip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 call | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 howls | cc |
| 32 | howls | howl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 yips | conj |
| 33 | at | at | ADP | _ | 34 night | case |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 call | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 use | 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 | use | present | Real coyotes | no rockets or traps | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rocket=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stalk | present | rockets = rocket | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | chase | present | rockets = rocket not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pounce | present | rockets = rocket not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | live | present | rockets = rocket not said here | many cities | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in city=Location | ||||
| 6 | see | gerund · passive | rockets = rocket not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 7 | call | present | rockets = rocket not said here | rockets's families | night | with yips and howls | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to family=Recipient |
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:122-looney-tunes-real-roadrunner-and-coyote.lesson:4.
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. 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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