Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos, sentence 6
Sheep and goats have long rectangular pupils lying sideways; when they bend to graze their eyes turn so the pupil stays level, and they can see almost all the way around without moving their heads.
Who acts: Sheep, long rectangular pupils, goats, eyes, pupil · What happens: have, lie, bend, graze, turn, stay · To what, where: long rectangular pupils, level, heads
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 (Sheep, long rectangular pupils, goats, eyes), 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 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 goats | cc |
| 3 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Sheep | conj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pupils | amod |
| 6 | rectangular | rectangular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pupils | amod |
| 7 | pupils | pupil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 have | obj |
| 8 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 pupils | acl |
| 9 | sideways | sideways | ADV | _ | 8 lying | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 bend | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 bend | advmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bend | nsubj |
| 13 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 graze | mark |
| 15 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 bend | advcl |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 turn | nsubj |
| 18 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 graze | advcl |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 stays | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 pupil | det |
| 21 | pupil | pupil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stays | nsubj |
| 22 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 turn | ccomp |
| 23 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stays | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 see | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 see | cc |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 see | nsubj |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 see | aux |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 graze | conj |
| 29 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 all | advmod |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 way | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 way | det |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 around | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | around | around | ADV | _ | 28 see | advmod |
| 34 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 35 moving | mark |
| 35 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 see | advcl |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 heads | nmod:poss |
| 37 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 moving | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Sheep and goats | long rectangular pupils | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pupil=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | long rectangular pupils not said here | sideways property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bend | present | goats = goat | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | graze | to-infinitive | goats = goat not said here | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn | present | goats's eyes | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | stay | present | the pupil | level | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme level=Location | ||||
| 7 | see | can | goats = goat | around property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | move | gerund | goats = goat not said here | goats's heads | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=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:139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals.lesson:6.
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 ×3, 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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