Looney Tunes: the real roadrunner and the real coyote, sentence 9
Roadrunners can fly, but only short and clumsily; they have short rounded wings and strong legs, and they belong to the cuckoo family.
Who acts: Roadrunners, heads · What happens: fly, have, round, belong · To what, where: short rounded wings
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 (Roadrunners, heads), 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 | Roadrunners | roadrunner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fly | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | aux |
| 3 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 short | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 short | cc |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 short | advmod |
| 7 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fly | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 clumsily | cc |
| 9 | clumsily | clumsily | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 short | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fly | parataxis |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wings | amod |
| 14 | rounded | round | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 wings | amod |
| 15 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 have | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 legs | cc |
| 17 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 legs | amod |
| 18 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wings | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 belong | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 belong | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 belong | nsubj |
| 22 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 family | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 family | det |
| 25 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 family | compound |
| 26 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 belong | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fly | 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 | fly | can | Roadrunners | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | present | heads = head | short rounded wings and strong legs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | round | participle | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | belong | present | heads = head | to the cuckoo family | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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:9.
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 ×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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