Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 11
Koalas sleep up to about twenty hours a day, and they are marsupials, not bears, even though people call them koala bears.
Who acts: Koalas, people · What happens: sleep up, be, call · To what, where: marsupials, Koalas · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Koalas, people), 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 | Koalas | koala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sleep | nsubj |
| 2 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 sleep | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 hours | case |
| 5 | about | about | ADV | _ | 6 twenty | advmod |
| 6 | twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 hours | nummod |
| 7 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sleep | obl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hours | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 marsupials | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 marsupials | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 marsupials | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 marsupials | cop |
| 14 | marsupials | marsupial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sleep | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bears | punct |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 bears | advmod |
| 17 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 marsupials | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 call | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 call | advmod |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 22 call | mark |
| 21 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 call | nsubj |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 marsupials | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 call | obj |
| 24 | koala | koala | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bears | compound |
| 25 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 call | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sleep | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep up | present | Koalas | hour | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Koalas = koala | marsupials and bears | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | present | people | Koalas = koala | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=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:11.
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, 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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