Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 1
In the cartoon Looney Tunes, Taz the Tasmanian devil spins like a tornado and eats everything; the real devil is the size of a small dog, does not spin, but does screech and squabble loudly over a dead wallaby.
Who acts: Taz, real devil · What happens: spin, eat, be, not spin, screech, squabble · To what, where: cartoon Looney Tunes, everything, size, dead wallaby
This is a sentence of the lesson «Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings» 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 (Taz, real devil), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Tunes | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tunes | det |
| 3 | cartoon | cartoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Tunes | compound |
| 4 | Looney | Looney | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tunes | compound |
| 5 | Tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 spins | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Taz | punct |
| 7 | Taz | Taz | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 spins | nsubj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 devil | det |
| 9 | Tasmanian | Tasmanian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 devil | compound |
| 10 | devil | Devil | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Taz | appos |
| 11 | spins | spin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 spin | parataxis |
| 12 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 tornado | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tornado | det |
| 14 | tornado | tornado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 spins | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 eats | cc |
| 16 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 spins | conj |
| 17 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 16 eats | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 spin | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 devil | det |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 devil | amod |
| 21 | devil | devil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 size | nsubj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 size | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 size | det |
| 24 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spin | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 dog | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 dog | det |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 dog | amod |
| 28 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 size | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 spin | punct |
| 30 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 spin | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 spin | advmod |
| 32 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 screech | punct |
| 34 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 screech | cc |
| 35 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 screech | aux |
| 36 | screech | screech | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 spin | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 squabble | cc |
| 38 | squabble | squabble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 screech | conj |
| 39 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 38 squabble | advmod |
| 40 | over | over | ADP | _ | 43 wallaby | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 wallaby | det |
| 42 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 wallaby | amod |
| 43 | wallaby | wallaby | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 screech | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 spins | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- narrate
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- none
- teacher
- kept the draft
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present | Taz | the cartoon Looney Tunes | like a tornado | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in tune=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | eat | present | Taz not said here | everything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | the real devil | the size | of a small dog | tree rules | |||
| 4 | not spin | present · do-support | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | screech | present · do-support | a dead wallaby | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over wallaby=Location | |||||
| 6 | squabble | infinitive | loudly property | vn battle-36.4 «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:167-australias-forests-and-tasmania-devils-cassowaries-and-lyrebirds.lesson:1.
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): R2-punct-next ×1, R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.
See the release 0.4.
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