Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes, sentence 7
Stripes might also confuse a lion trying to pick out one zebra from a running herd, but this is less certain.
Who acts: Stripes, lion, this · What happens: confuse, try, pick out, run, be · To what, where: lion, one zebra, running herd
This is a sentence of the lesson «Marty, Gloria and Melman: real zebras, hippos and giraffes» 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 (Stripes, lion, this), 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 | Stripes | stripe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 confuse | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 confuse | aux |
| 3 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 confuse | advmod |
| 4 | confuse | confuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confuse | obj |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 lion | acl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pick | mark |
| 9 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trying | xcomp |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 pick | compound:prt |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 zebra | nummod |
| 12 | zebra | zebra | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pick | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 herd | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 herd | det |
| 15 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 herd | amod |
| 16 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pick | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 certain | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 certain | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 certain | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 certain | cop |
| 21 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 certain | advmod |
| 22 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 confuse | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confuse | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- hedged
- yes
- teacher
- changed hedge=1
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confuse | might | Stripes | a lion | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | a lion not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pick out not said to happen | to-infinitive | a lion not said here | one zebra | a running herd | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent zebra=Theme from herd=Source | |||
| 4 | run | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | this | certain, less property | 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:128-madagascar-real-zebras-hippos-and-giraffes.lesson:7.
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. 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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