The Congo river: tigerfish, the deepest river, lungfish and hidden birds, sentence 17
African pygmy kingfishers are tiny kingfishers that mostly hunt insects in woods, not fish in rivers.
Who acts: African pygmy kingfishers, tiny kingfishers · What happens: be, hunt · To what, where: tiny kingfishers, insects, woods
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 (African pygmy kingfishers, tiny kingfishers), 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 | African | African | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kingfishers | amod |
| 2 | pygmy | pygmy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kingfishers | compound |
| 3 | kingfishers | kingfisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kingfishers | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kingfishers | cop |
| 5 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kingfishers | amod |
| 6 | kingfishers | kingfisher | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 hunt | nsubj |
| 8 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 9 hunt | advmod |
| 9 | hunt | hunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kingfishers | acl:relcl |
| 10 | insects | insect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hunt | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 woods | case |
| 12 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hunt | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fish | punct |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fish | advmod |
| 15 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 insects | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 rivers | case |
| 17 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fish | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kingfishers | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | African pygmy kingfishers | tiny kingfishers | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hunt | present | tiny kingfishers | insects and fish in rivers | woods | mostly property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent insect=Theme in wood=Location |
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:17.
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): 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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