Monkeys: kinds, tails and troops, sentence 4
A gorilla is not a monkey at all: apes have no tail; and the cartoon monkey with a banana is wrong too, because wild monkeys never ate our sweet shop bananas.
Who acts: gorilla, apes, cartoon monkey, wild monkeys · What happens: not be, have, be, not eat · To what, where: monkey, all, tail, sweet shop bananas
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 (gorilla, apes, cartoon monkey, wild monkeys), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 gorilla | det |
| 2 | gorilla | gorilla | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 monkey | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 monkey | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 monkey | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 monkey | det |
| 6 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 all | case |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 monkey | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | apes | ape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 monkey | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 tail | det |
| 13 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 wrong | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 wrong | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 monkey | det |
| 17 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 monkey | compound |
| 18 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wrong | nsubj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 banana | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 banana | det |
| 21 | banana | banana | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 monkey | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 wrong | cop |
| 23 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 have | conj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 23 wrong | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 ate | punct |
| 26 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 30 ate | mark |
| 27 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 monkeys | amod |
| 28 | monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 ate | nsubj |
| 29 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 ate | advmod |
| 30 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 wrong | advcl |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 bananas | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bananas | amod |
| 33 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 bananas | compound |
| 34 | bananas | banana | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 ate | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 monkey | 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 is a | present | a gorilla | a monkey | all | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | apes | no tail | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the cartoon monkey with a banana | wrong property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not eat | past | wild monkeys | our sweet shop bananas | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent banana=Patient |
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:4.
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. 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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