Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules, sentence 8
Donkeys form strong friendships and can become very upset if their friend is taken away.
Who acts: Donkeys · What happens: form, become, take away · To what, where: strong friendships, friend
This is a sentence of the lesson «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» 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 (Donkeys), 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 | Donkeys | donkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 form | nsubj |
| 2 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friendships | amod |
| 4 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 form | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 become | cc |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 become | aux |
| 7 | become | become | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 form | conj |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 upset | advmod |
| 9 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 become | xcomp |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 taken | mark |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 become | advcl |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 taken | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 form | 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 | form | present | Donkeys | strong friendships | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location friendship=Theme | ||||
| 2 | become | can | Donkeys not said here | upset property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | take away a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | friendships's friend | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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:145-shrek-s-donkey-real-donkeys-and-mules.lesson:8.
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. 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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