Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 3
Most monkeys live in troops that groom each other, warn each other and shout at the neighbours: howlers boom at dawn, baboons march along the road, and snow monkeys sit together in hot springs.
Who acts: Most monkeys, troops, howlers, baboons, snow monkeys · What happens: live, groom, warn, shout, boom, march · To what, where: troops, each, neighbours, road
This is a sentence of the lesson «Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops» 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 (Most monkeys, troops, howlers, baboons), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 2 monkeys | amod |
| 2 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | nsubj |
| 3 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 troops | case |
| 5 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 live | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 groom | nsubj |
| 7 | groom | groom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 troops | acl:relcl |
| 8 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 groom | obj |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 each | fixed |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 warn | punct |
| 11 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 groom | conj |
| 12 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 11 warn | obj |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 each | fixed |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 shout | cc |
| 15 | shout | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 warn | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 neighbours | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 neighbours | det |
| 18 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shout | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 boom | punct |
| 20 | howlers | howler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 boom | nsubj |
| 21 | boom | boom | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 live | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 dawn | case |
| 23 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 boom | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 march | punct |
| 25 | baboons | baboon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 march | nsubj |
| 26 | march | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 boom | conj |
| 27 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 road | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 road | det |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 march | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sit | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sit | cc |
| 32 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 monkeys | compound |
| 33 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 sit | nsubj |
| 34 | sit | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 boom | conj |
| 35 | together | together | ADV | _ | 34 sit | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 springs | case |
| 37 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 springs | amod |
| 38 | springs | spring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 sit | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 live | 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 | live | present | Most monkeys | troops | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in troops=Location | ||||
| 2 | groom | present | troops | each | vn groom-41.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Patient | ||||
| 3 | warn speech: warn | present | troops not said here | each | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent each=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | shout speech: express | present | troops not said here | the neighbours | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | boom | present | howlers | dawn | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | march | present | baboons | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | sit | present | snow monkeys | spring | together property | vn assuming_position-50 «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:015-monkeys-kinds-tails-and-troops.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): 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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