Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 12
Ducks cannot crow; roosters crow, especially before dawn, using an inner body clock, and the top rooster usually crows first.
Who acts: Ducks, roosters, top rooster · What happens: not crow, crow, use · To what, where: inner body clock
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 (Ducks, roosters, top rooster), 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 | Ducks | duck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crow | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 crow | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 crow | advmod |
| 4 | crow | crow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 crow | punct |
| 6 | roosters | rooster | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 crow | nsubj |
| 7 | crow | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 crow | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 dawn | punct |
| 9 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 11 dawn | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 dawn | case |
| 11 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crow | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 using | punct |
| 13 | using | use | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 crow | advcl |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 clock | det |
| 15 | inner | inner | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 clock | amod |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clock | compound |
| 17 | clock | clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 using | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 crows | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 crows | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 rooster | det |
| 21 | top | top | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 rooster | amod |
| 22 | rooster | rooster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crows | nsubj |
| 23 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 24 crows | advmod |
| 24 | crows | crow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 crow | conj |
| 25 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 crows | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 crow | 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 | not crow | can | Ducks | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | crow | present | roosters | dawn | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | use | gerund | roosters not said here | a inner body clock | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clock=Patient | ||||
| 4 | crow | present | the top rooster | first, usually property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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:12.
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 ×1, R7-rel-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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