Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 1
Real herding is a dog's job: sheepdogs come from wolves, which hunt by circling and driving prey, so a Border collie crouches, creeps and stares, and the frightened sheep bunch up and move away from it.
Who acts: Real herding, sheepdogs, wolves, Border collie, frightened sheep · What happens: be, come, hunt, circle, drive, crouch · To what, where: job, wolves, prey
This is a sentence of the lesson «Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs» 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 (Real herding, sheepdogs, wolves, Border collie), 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 herding | amod |
| 2 | herding | herding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 job | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 job | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 job | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 7 | job | job | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 job | punct |
| 9 | sheepdogs | sheepdog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 job | parataxis |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 wolves | case |
| 12 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 come | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 hunt | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 hunt | nsubj |
| 15 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 wolves | acl:relcl |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 circling | mark |
| 17 | circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hunt | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 driving | cc |
| 19 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 circling | conj |
| 20 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 driving | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 crouches | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 crouches | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 collie | det |
| 24 | Border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 collie | compound |
| 25 | collie | collie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crouches | nsubj |
| 26 | crouches | crouch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 creeps | punct |
| 28 | creeps | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 crouches | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 stares | cc |
| 30 | stares | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 crouches | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 bunch | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 bunch | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sheep | det |
| 34 | frightened | frightened | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sheep | amod |
| 35 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 bunch | nsubj |
| 36 | bunch | bunch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 crouches | conj |
| 37 | up | up | ADP | _ | 36 bunch | compound:prt |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 move | cc |
| 39 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 bunch | conj |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 39 move | advmod |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 it | case |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 move | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 job | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Real herding | a dog's job | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | present | sheepdogs | wolves | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wolf=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | hunt | present | wolves | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | circle | gerund | wolves not said here | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | drive | gerund | wolves not said here | prey | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme prey=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | crouch | present | a Border collie | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | creep | present | a Border collie not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | stare | present | a Border collie not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | bunch up | present | the frightened sheep | tree rules | |||||
| 10 | move away | present | the frightened sheep not said here | from collie; away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory |
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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.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 ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-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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