The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 13
The Congo peafowl, a shy cousin of the Indian peacock, lives only in the Congo forest; a feather in a villager's hat puzzled a scientist years before the bird was named in 1936.
Who acts: Congo peafowl, feather · What happens: live, puzzle, name · To what, where: Congo forest, scientist, bird, 1936
This is a sentence of the lesson «The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds» 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 (Congo peafowl, feather), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 peafowl | det |
| 2 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 peafowl | compound |
| 3 | peafowl | peafowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lives | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cousin | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 cousin | det |
| 6 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cousin | amod |
| 7 | cousin | cousin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 peafowl | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 peacock | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 peacock | det |
| 10 | Indian | Indian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 peacock | amod |
| 11 | peacock | peacock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cousin | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 peafowl | punct |
| 13 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 puzzled | parataxis |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 forest | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 17 | Congo | Congo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 forest | compound |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lives | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 feather | punct |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 feather | det |
| 21 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 puzzled | nsubj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hat | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 villager | det |
| 24 | villager | villager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hat | nmod:poss |
| 25 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 24 villager | case |
| 26 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 feather | nmod |
| 27 | puzzled | puzzle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 scientist | det |
| 29 | scientist | scientist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 puzzled | obj |
| 30 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 named | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 35 named | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 bird | det |
| 33 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 named | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 named | aux:pass |
| 35 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 puzzled | advcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 1936 | case |
| 37 | 1936 | 1936 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 35 named | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | the Congo peafowl | the Congo forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | ||||
| 2 | puzzle | past | a feather in a villager's hat | a scientist | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus scientist=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | name | past · passive | the bird | 1936 | year | vn appoint-29.1 «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:160-the-congo-river.lesson:13.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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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