Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 2
Imagine a bird in the garden that copies your mum's phone ringtone, a car alarm and a camera click: that is a lyrebird, and other forest birds decorate their homes with blue bottle caps to impress a mate.
Who acts: you, bird, that, other forest birds · What happens: imagine, copy, be, decorate, impress · To what, where: bird, garden, phone ringtone, lyrebird, homes, mate
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 (you, bird, that, other forest birds), 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 | Imagine | imagine | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bird | det |
| 3 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bird | nmod |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 copies | nsubj |
| 8 | copies | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 bird | acl:relcl |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mum | nmod:poss |
| 10 | mum | mum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ringtone | nmod:poss |
| 11 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 10 mum | case |
| 12 | phone | phone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ringtone | compound |
| 13 | ringtone | ringtone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 copies | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 alarm | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 alarm | det |
| 16 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 alarm | compound |
| 17 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ringtone | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 click | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 click | det |
| 20 | camera | camera | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 click | compound |
| 21 | click | click | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 alarm | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 lyrebird | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 lyrebird | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lyrebird | cop |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 lyrebird | det |
| 26 | lyrebird | lyrebird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Imagine | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 decorate | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 decorate | cc |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 birds | amod |
| 30 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 birds | compound |
| 31 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 decorate | nsubj |
| 32 | decorate | decorate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 lyrebird | conj |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 homes | nmod:poss |
| 34 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 decorate | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 caps | case |
| 36 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 caps | amod |
| 37 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 caps | compound |
| 38 | caps | cap | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 decorate | obl |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 impress | mark |
| 40 | impress | impress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 decorate | advcl |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 mate | det |
| 42 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 impress | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | imperative | you not said here | a bird | the garden | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot bird=Theme | |||
| 2 | copy | present | a bird | your mum's phone ringtone and a car alarm and a camera click | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ringtone=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | a lyrebird | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | decorate | present | other forest birds | alarm's homes | with blue bottle caps | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent home=Destination with cap=Theme | |||
| 5 | impress | to-infinitive | other forest birds not said here | a mate | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mate=Experiencer |
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:2.
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): R5-strong ×2, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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