Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 10
Quokkas are small wallabies that live mostly on Rottnest Island and look like they are smiling, and touching or feeding them is against the rules and can be fined.
Who acts: Quokkas, small wallabies, touching · What happens: be, live, look, smile, touch, feed · To what, where: small wallabies, Rottnest Island, Quokkas
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 (Quokkas, small wallabies, touching), 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 | Quokkas | quokka | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wallabies | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wallabies | cop |
| 3 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wallabies | amod |
| 4 | wallabies | wallaby | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 live | nsubj |
| 6 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wallabies | acl:relcl |
| 7 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 6 live | advmod |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 Island | case |
| 9 | Rottnest | Rottnest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Island | compound |
| 10 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 live | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 look | cc |
| 12 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 live | conj |
| 13 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 16 smiling | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 smiling | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 smiling | aux |
| 16 | smiling | smile | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 look | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rules | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 touching | cc |
| 19 | touching | touch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 rules | csubj |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 feeding | cc |
| 21 | feeding | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 touching | conj |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 feeding | obj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 rules | cop |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 rules | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 rules | det |
| 26 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 smiling | conj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fined | cc |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 fined | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 fined | aux:pass |
| 30 | fined | fine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 rules | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wallabies | 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 | is a | present | Quokkas | small wallabies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | present | small wallabies | Rottnest Island | mostly property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on island=Location | |||
| 3 | look | present | small wallabies not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | smile | present · progressive | Quokkas = quokka | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | touch | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | feed | gerund | Quokkas = quokka | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | is | present | touching | against the rules | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fine | can · passive | touching not said here | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient» |
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:10.
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): 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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