Australia's forests and Tasmania: devils, cassowaries, lyrebirds and cube-shaped droppings, sentence 8

Male satin bowerbirds build a stick bower and decorate it with blue things such as flowers, feathers and bottle caps, and some bowerbirds arrange objects to change how big they look from the female's viewpoint.

Who acts: Male satin bowerbirds, bowerbirds · What happens: build, decorate, arrange, change, look · To what, where: stick bower, bower, objects

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 satin bowerbirds, bowerbirds), 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	3 bowerbirds	amod
2	satin	satin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bowerbirds	compound
3	bowerbirds	bowerbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 build	nsubj
4	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bower	det
6	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bower	compound
7	bower	bower	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 build	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 decorate	cc
9	decorate	decorate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 build	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 decorate	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 things	case
12	blue	blue	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 things	amod
13	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 decorate	obl
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP	16 flowers	case
15	as	as	ADP	_	14 such	fixed
16	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 things	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 feathers	punct
18	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 flowers	conj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 caps	cc
20	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 caps	compound
21	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 things	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 arrange	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 arrange	cc
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 bowerbirds	det
25	bowerbirds	bowerbird	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 arrange	nsubj
26	arrange	arrange	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 build	conj
27	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 arrange	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 change	mark
29	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 arrange	advcl
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 big	advmod
31	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 look	xcomp
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 look	nsubj
33	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 change	ccomp
34	from	from	ADP	_	38 viewpoint	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 female	det
36	female	female	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 viewpoint	nmod:poss
37	's	's	PART	_	36 female	case
38	viewpoint	viewpoint	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 look	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 build	punct

Pragmatics

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	build	present	Male satin bowerbirds	a stick bower		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bower=Product
2	decorate	present	Male satin bowerbirds not said here	bower	with blue things such flowers and feathers and bottle caps	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with thing=Theme
3	arrange	present	some bowerbirds	objects		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent object=Product
4	change	to-infinitive	some bowerbirds not said here			tree rules
5	look	present	bowerbirds = bowerbird		from the female's viewpoint; big property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from viewpoint=Theme

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:8.

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, 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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