Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 1
Look a sheep in the eye and you will see a long sideways slit for a pupil, giving it a wide view of the ground all around so it can spot a fox while it grazes.
Who acts: you, view · What happens: look, see, give, spot, graze, view · To what, where: sheep, eye, long sideways slit, wide view, slit, fox
This is a sentence of the lesson «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos» 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, view), 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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sheep | det |
| 3 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 eye | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eye | det |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 see | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 see | aux |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Look | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 slit | det |
| 12 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slit | amod |
| 13 | sideways | sideway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 slit | compound |
| 14 | slit | slit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 see | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 pupil | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 pupil | det |
| 17 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 slit | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 giving | punct |
| 19 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 see | advcl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 giving | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 view | det |
| 22 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 view | amod |
| 23 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 giving | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 view | nmod |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 around | advmod |
| 28 | around | around | ADV | _ | 26 ground | advmod |
| 29 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 32 spot | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 spot | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 spot | aux |
| 32 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 giving | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fox | det |
| 34 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spot | obj |
| 35 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 37 grazes | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 grazes | nsubj |
| 37 | grazes | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 spot | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | a sheep | the eye | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sheep=Attribute | |||
| 2 | see | future | you | a long sideways slit | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer slit=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | you not said here | a wide view of the ground | slit | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient view=Theme | |||
| 4 | spot | can | view | a fox | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fox=Destination | ||||
| 5 | graze | present | view | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | view | the ground | nom view «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.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): R5-strong ×4. 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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