Babe: real pigs, sheep and sheepdogs, sentence 3
Picture a hillside: a shepherd whistles, the dog swings left round the flock, and three hundred sheep move as one.
Who acts: you, shepherd, dog, hundred sheep · What happens: picture, whistle, swing, move · To what, where: hillside, flock
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 (you, shepherd, dog, hundred sheep), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hillside | det |
| 3 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 whistles | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shepherd | det |
| 6 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 whistles | nsubj |
| 7 | whistles | whistle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hillside | parataxis |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 swings | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 dog | det |
| 10 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swings | nsubj |
| 11 | swings | swing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 whistles | conj |
| 12 | left | leave | ADV | _ | 11 swings | advmod |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 15 flock | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 flock | det |
| 15 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swings | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 move | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 move | cc |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 hundred | compound |
| 19 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 sheep | nummod |
| 20 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 move | nsubj |
| 21 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Picture | conj |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 move | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a hillside | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent hillside=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whistle | present | a shepherd | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | swing | present | the dog | the flock | leave property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme round flock=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | move | present | hundred sheep | as one | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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:3.
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): R2-punct-next ×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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