Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 1
Picture a museum hall with a cat skull whose two fangs are as long as your school ruler: that is Smilodon, the real Diego, and its bones were pulled out of a sticky tar pit.
Who acts: you, two fangs, that · What happens: picture, be, pull out · To what, where: museum hall, Smilodon, bones, sticky tar pit
This is a sentence of the lesson «Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos» 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 (you, two fangs, that), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hall | det |
| 3 | museum | museum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hall | compound |
| 4 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 skull | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 skull | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 skull | compound |
| 8 | skull | skull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hall | nmod |
| 9 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 fangs | nmod:poss |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 fangs | nummod |
| 11 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 long | nsubj |
| 12 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 long | cop |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 skull | acl:relcl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 ruler | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ruler | nmod:poss |
| 17 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 ruler | compound |
| 18 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 long | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Smilodon | punct |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 Smilodon | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 Smilodon | cop |
| 22 | Smilodon | Smilodon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 Diego | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Diego | det |
| 25 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Diego | amod |
| 26 | Diego | Diego | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Smilodon | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pulled | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 pulled | cc |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bones | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 pulled | aux:pass |
| 32 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Smilodon | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 38 pit | case |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 pit | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 pit | det |
| 36 | sticky | sticky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 pit | amod |
| 37 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pit | compound |
| 38 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 pulled | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a museum hall | with a cat skull | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hall=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | two fangs | as your school ruler; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | Smilodon and the real Diego | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pull out | past · passive | Diego's bones | a sticky tar pit | 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:131-ice-age-sabre-tooths-ground-sloths-and-scrat.lesson:1.
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): no change. 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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