Ice Age: real sabre-tooths, ground sloths, glyptodonts and dodos, sentence 2
The film mixes things up for fun: a real sabre-tooth would have hunted a young mammoth, not walked beside it, and dodos lived on one warm island far from any ice.
Who acts: film, real sabre tooth, dodos · What happens: mix up, hunt, not walk, live · To what, where: things, young mammoth, tooth, one warm island
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 (film, real sabre tooth, dodos), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 film | det |
| 2 | film | film | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mixes | nsubj |
| 3 | mixes | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 mixes | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 mixes | compound:prt |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 fun | case |
| 7 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mixes | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 mixes | punct |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tooth | det |
| 10 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tooth | amod |
| 11 | sabre | sabre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tooth | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 sabre | punct |
| 13 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunted | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 hunted | aux |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 hunted | aux |
| 16 | hunted | hunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 mixes | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 mammoth | det |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 mammoth | amod |
| 19 | mammoth | mammoth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunted | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 walked | punct |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 walked | advmod |
| 22 | walked | walk | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 hunted | conj |
| 23 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 walked | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lived | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lived | cc |
| 27 | dodos | dodo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 lived | nsubj |
| 28 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hunted | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 island | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 island | nummod |
| 31 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 island | amod |
| 32 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lived | obl |
| 33 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 36 ice | advmod |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 ice | case |
| 35 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 ice | det |
| 36 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 island | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 mixes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mix up | present | the film | things | for fun | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thing=Product for fun=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | hunt | would · perfect | a real sabre tooth | a young mammoth | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mammoth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not walk | participle | a real sabre tooth not said here | tooth | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside it=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | live | past | dodos | one warm island from any ice | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location |
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:2.
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): R6-punct-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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