Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 15
Tasmania's mountain ash trees are among the tallest flowering trees in the world, and the one called the Centurion is about a hundred metres tall, as tall as a thirty-storey building.
Who acts: ash trees, one · What happens: flower, be, call · To what, where: world, Centurion · 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 (ash trees, one), 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 | Tasmania | Tasmania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 trees | nmod:poss |
| 2 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 1 Tasmania | case |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ash | compound |
| 4 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trees | compound |
| 5 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 trees | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 trees | cop |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 11 trees | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 trees | det |
| 9 | tallest | tall | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 trees | amod |
| 10 | flowering | flower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 trees | amod |
| 11 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 world | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 world | det |
| 14 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 trees | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 tall | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 tall | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 one | det |
| 18 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tall | nsubj |
| 19 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 one | acl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Centurion | det |
| 21 | Centurion | centurion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 called | obj |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 tall | cop |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 hundred | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hundred | det |
| 25 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 metres | nummod |
| 26 | metres | metre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 tall | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 trees | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 tall | punct |
| 29 | as | as | ADV | _ | 30 tall | advmod |
| 30 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tall | conj |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 36 building | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 building | det |
| 33 | thirty | thirty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 storey | nummod |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 thirty | punct |
| 35 | storey | storey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 building | compound |
| 36 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tall | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 trees | 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 | flower | gerund | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | Tasmania's ash trees | the world | among the tallest flowering trees | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call | participle | the one not said here | the Centurion | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent centurion=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the one | hundred metres obl:unmarked; tall property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the one not said here | as a storey building | tree rules |
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:15.
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 ×2, 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.
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