Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 7

Male lyrebirds are famous mimics that copy the calls of many birds and sometimes human sounds such as camera shutters, car alarms and chainsaws.

Who acts: Male lyrebirds, famous mimics · What happens: be, copy, call · To what, where: famous mimics, calls, many birds · 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 (Male lyrebirds, famous mimics), 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	Male	male	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 lyrebirds	amod
2	lyrebirds	lyrebird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 mimics	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mimics	cop
4	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mimics	amod
5	mimics	mimic	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 copy	nsubj
7	copy	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mimics	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 calls	det
9	calls	call	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 copy	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 birds	case
11	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 birds	amod
12	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 calls	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sounds	cc
14	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	PronType=Ind	16 sounds	advmod
15	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sounds	amod
16	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 birds	conj
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	20 shutters	case
18	as	as	ADP	_	17 such	fixed
19	camera	camera	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 shutters	compound
20	shutters	shutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 sounds	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 alarms	punct
22	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 alarms	compound
23	alarms	alarm	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 shutters	conj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 chainsaws	cc
25	chainsaws	chainsaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 birds	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 mimics	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	Male lyrebirds	famous mimics	tree rules
2	copy	present	famous mimics	the calls of many birds and human sounds such camera shutters and car alarms and chainsaws	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent call=Theme
3	call			many birds and human sounds such camera shutters and car alarms and chainsaws	nom call «communication transitive»: of=patient

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:7.

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 ×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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