Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 10
Scared sheep bunch tightly together, because the middle of a crowd is safer, and that is what lets one dog move hundreds of sheep.
Who acts: Scared sheep, middle, that · What happens: bunch, be, let, move · To what, where: hundreds
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 (Scared sheep, middle, 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 | Scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 sheep | amod |
| 2 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bunch | nsubj |
| 3 | bunch | bunch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 5 together | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 bunch | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 safer | punct |
| 7 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 14 safer | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 middle | det |
| 9 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 safer | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 crowd | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 crowd | det |
| 12 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 middle | nmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 safer | cop |
| 14 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 bunch | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 what | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 what | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 what | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | cop |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 safer | conj |
| 20 | lets | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 dog | nummod |
| 22 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 move | compound |
| 23 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 lets | xcomp |
| 24 | hundreds | hundred | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 move | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 sheep | case |
| 26 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 hundreds | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bunch | 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 | bunch | present | Scared sheep | together property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the middle of a crowd | safe property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | let | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | move | infinitive | hundreds of sheep | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hundred=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:144-babe-real-pigs-sheep-and-sheepdogs.lesson:10.
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. 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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